In the late 1970s, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar kept four hippopotamuses in a private menagerie at his residence in Hacienda Nápoles, 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Medellín, Colombia. They were deemed too difficult to seize and move after Escobar's death, and hence left on the untended estate.

A hippo in the Magdalena River, Colombia’s longest waterway, where the descendants of Escobar’s menagerie are increasingly taking up residence, threatening plant and animal life.

2021年2月11日 · A group of hippos originally imported by Escobar to his private zoo decades ago has multiplied and, according to scientists, is now spreading through one of the country's main waterways - the...

2024年7月11日 · Four decades ago, Pablo Escobar brought to his Medellín hideaway four hippopotamuses, the centerpieces of a menagerie that included llamas, cheetahs, lions, tigers, ostriches and other exotic...

2023年11月18日 · When the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, most of the animals he had imported as pets — zebras, giraffes, kangaroos and rhinoceroses — died or were transferred to zoos. But...

2023年11月3日 · Colombia is to cull some of the 166 hippos descended from a herd owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said that 20 would be sterilised, others...

2023年11月15日 · Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one...

2023年11月3日 · Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, through...

2023年6月7日 · Thirty years after Pablo Escobar's death in 1993, the notorious cartel leader's "cocaine hippos" are still wreaking havoc in one of the world's most biodiverse countries. A new study of the...

2023年11月22日 · Colombia has begun sterilizing an invasive herd of hippos dominating rivers near Hacienda Nápoles, the former estate of drug lord Pablo Escobar. The roughly 170 hippopotamuses are descended...