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When we last checked in on Pablo Escobar’s hippos – the descendants of the dead drug lord’s hippopotamuses that have infiltrated Colombia’s Magdalena River basin – the government was attempting to control the invasive population by sterilizing them.
It’s been four decades since drug kingpin Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippopotamuses out of Africa to populate his lavish estate in Colombia with exotic animals. Escobar has been dead a long time but his hippos have flourished, with more than 150 of the beasts stomping throughout the Magdalena River basin.
Cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar has been dead for thirty years but at least part of his legacy lives on in the form of voracious hippopotamuses, which the Colombian government now has to deal with.
