This is an urgent ecological problem, as the hippos are harming native species, wrecking waterways, and causing conflicts with people. Forrest Galante (pictured) is an explorer, wildlife biologist, TV ...

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.

Colombia’s plans to relocate 70 “cocaine hippos” descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie will cost approximately $3.5 million, officials said in a press conference ...

A sterilization campaign was begun instead, but it has done little to slow the hippos’ progress. From 2011 to 2019 four males were castrated and two females were sterilized, but this “does not ...

Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn't know how to stop it 05:41. Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar's former ranch ...

OTIS: "The hippo threw him in the air and opened his mouth," Cadavid says. "He played with him like a ball." There have been no fatal hippo attacks here, but Colombia's luck could run out.

SAN DIEGO — Even at Hacienda Nápoles, the hippos stood out. Given the marvels of Pablo Escobar’s 7,400-acre central Colombian hideaway, that was no small feat. The notorious drug lord’s $63 ...

After cocaine king Escobar was gunned down by police in 1993, his private ranch and collection of exotic animals, including hippos, were left to nature in an area of abundant vegetation and where ...

The population of hippopotami descending from Pablo Escbobar’s so-called 'cocaine hippos' is reportedly on the rise, as is the number of people they are attacking.

Pablo Escobar's hippos are taking over the marshlands of Colombia -- and need to face the same fate as their late owner before they become impossible to control, scientists warned.

While you've probably heard of "Cocaine Bear," you probably haven't heard of the "cocaine hippos" wreaking havoc on one South American nation's ecosystem 40 years after their owner, drug kingpin ...

The Colombian government finally began developing plans to cull its rogue hippo population, but in 2020 a Colombian lawyer sued on behalf of the hippos, arguing they should be sterilized instead ...