News that the relocation of Pablo Escobar’s hippos will cost Colombia $3.5million makes for some excellent headlines, but the true cost of humans translocating animals is far greater. The ...
When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in 1993, having built a billion dollar cocaine empire, he left behind a zoo. While his rhinos, giraffes, elephants and kangaroos were re-housed, the hippos ...
HORNY cocaine hippos who escaped from Pablo Escobar's private zoo are set to multiply sixfold into a menacing 1,000 strong army. The rotund stampede could wreak havoc on Colombian wildlife if ...
PABLO Escobar's infamous "cocaine hippos" are now being culled by the Colombian government. The four that escaped from Escobar's private zoo 30 years ago rapidly multiplied and have since ...
A wildlife expert claims that officials behind Pablo Escobar's private zoo are secretly trying to kill its former hippos. After breaking out of the cocaine kingpin's Colombian estate, the fierce ...
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 ...
In the late '80s, infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar illegally imported a group of hippos for his personal zoo. Today, these hippos are wreaking havoc and are protected by the government.
Invasive species typically get a bad rap for destroying local ecosystems. For decades, the same was thought to be true of a herd of hippos in Colombia descended from Pablo Escobar's personal zoo.
Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses have left locals living in fear as it is claimed they have started to attack people after spreading across his estate. The Colombian drug lord’s pet hippos have ...