The faith of a herd of hippos once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar has been sealed. Hippos are a familiar sight in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

PABLO Escobar's herd of randy cocaine hippos have been sentenced to death by judges in Colombia. The "out of control" beasts escaped from the cartel kingpin's compound when he died in a police ...

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 ...

But thanks to the megalomaniac idea of Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1990s, a herd of hippos found their new ... euthanasia’ and lack of will to remove them. Previous plans included ...