The late kingpin's animals have roamed free since the early 1990s, but their tenure could soon come to an end.

Colombia has spent years figuring out the best way to deal with a growing population of invasive hippos that arrived in the ...

The hippo was a descendent of the four animals that notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar imported from a zoo in the US to his luxurious Hacienda Nápoles estate in Colombia in the 1980s. The four ...

Hippos have been a menace in Colombia since the early 1990s and have reproduced to create their largest population outside of ...

Hidden fortune found in Pablo Escobar's house Atoning for the sins of a brother The rise of the so-called "cocaine hippos" began in 1993 after authorities killed Pablo Escobar and seized his ...

PABLO Escobar's horny "completely out of control" hippos are multiplying so rapidly that experts worry they could total 1,400. Since the notorious kingpin was shot to death by cops in Medellín in ...

As part of ongoing efforts to tackle a population of invasive hippos first introduced into the country by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, a Colombian court has issued an order specifying that the ...

Colombia is to cull some of the 166 hippos descended from a herd owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said that 20 would be sterilised, others would ...

The late drug lord, Pablo Escobar, imported four hippos from Africa in the 1980s. The animals have since reproduced and grown significantly in numbers. [Courtesy of Getty Images] Colombia is ...

Bogota The infamous Pablo Escobar, who terrorized Colombia during the 1980s and early 1990s, resulted in thousands of deaths. And in the 1980s, he smuggled four hippos from a wildlife park in ...

A Colombian court on Friday called for the hunting of hippos, introduced to the country in the 1980s by drug kingpin Pablo ...