Now officials are taking extreme measures to counter the problem A hippo crosses a rural road ... presence here is an unlikely legacy of Pablo Escobar, the infamous drug baron from Medellín.

Hopefully, these measures will help curb the hippo population and keep the community safe. When the leader of the Medellín cartel, Pablo Escobar, died in 1993 during a shootout with police ...

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.

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 ...

More than 200 hippos are threatening the ecosystem. In response, biologist Forrest Galante traveled to the country to help curb this environmental crisis. The situation has escalated to such an ...

Raina was rescued from the circus and lived out the last 15 years of her life on Pablo Escobar’s estate before she died on Monday morning, aged 70. While the drug lord’s pet hippos may have ...

Their existence in the country began with the import of four individuals by drug lord Pablo Escobar. The four hippopotamuses later escaped into the wild. In January, biologists and other experts ...

BOGOTA, Colombia--Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar ... in eight years. Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles--and the hippos--have become a ...

hippos, and ostriches. Additional Amenities: Private airport, bullring, Formula 1 racing track, artificial lakes, and a sculpture park Acquisition Details Established in 1978 by Pablo Escobar and ...