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

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 ...

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 ...

Colombia is sterilizing drug lord Pablo Escobar's hippos. Escobar brought four hippos to his estate illegally before he was shot dead in 1993. They have since bred and multiplied, and, according ...

The drug kingpin brought four hippos to his estate in the 1980s ... who boasted of murdering hundreds of people for Pablo Escobar, in recent years had built a business around the memories of ...

When drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot dead by police in 1993, he left behind not only a cocaine empire, but giraffes, zebras, flamingos, and four hippos. Most of the animals were sent to zoos ...

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