Columbia Set To Euthanize Dozens Of ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Linked To Drug Lord

By Mark Tanos

Colombia plans to kill up to 80 hippos descended from Pablo Escobar’s private collection after they became an invasive animal population, officials said.

The late drug lord smuggled four hippos into the country during the 1980s to stock a zoo at his sprawling Hacienda Nápoles estate in the Magdalena River valley, CBS News reported. After Escobar’s death in 1993, the animals roamed free and multiplied. Colombia remains the only nation outside Africa home to wild hippos.

Environmental officials said the herd now exceeds 160, according to UPI. The animals could swell to 500 by the end of the decade without aggressive intervention, official data indicated. Government-cited research recommended eliminating no fewer than 33 animals annually to meaningfully shrink the population. The so-called “cocaine hippos” have turned up over 60 miles north of the original ranch in recent times, CBS News reported.

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