The late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar had a taste for the exotic. He famously stocked his private zoo with giraffes, zebras and hippopotamuses, and some of those African hippos escaped into ...

Colombian drug lord Escobar kept hippos on his ranch which went feral. Now some are being “rescued” and sent to El Chapo’s homeland.

Colombia will transfer 70 hippos once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar to overseas sanctuaries at a cost of $3.5m. The cocaine baron brought a small number of the African beasts to Colombia in the ...

The drug lord Pablo Escobar imported hippos to live on his Colombian ranch. They've rapidly bred. Now authorities want to send at least 70 hippos to Mexico and India, CBS News reported.

Colombia has said a plan to move 70 hippos to overseas sanctuaries will cost $3.5 million (£2.8m). Drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, illegally imported exotic animals ...

Some of the hippos that roamed the former ranch of late drug lord Pablo Escobar, in northwestern Colombia, were sterilized due in 2021 due to the 'uncontrolled' growth of this 'invasive' species ...

A-hed; Hippos Spawned From Drug Lord Pablo Escobar’s Ranch Won’t Stop Multiplying Originally from Africa, the giant beasts have spread across 120 miles of Colombian waterways.

Hippos—descendants from a small herd smuggled into Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar—are seen in the wild in a lake near Hacienda Nápoles on April 19, 2023.

Officials in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, said one of Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" was struck and killed by a car Tuesday night just a few miles away from the infamous drug lord's estate.

Drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, illegally imported exotic animals into the country, including a number of hippos, in the 1980s.