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2. www.bbc.com › news › world-latin-america-56011594Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia's hippos

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   10 February 2021. By Fernando Duarte, BBC World Service. Getty Images. The hippos brought by Pablo Escobar to his private zoo have multiplied and invaded Colombia's waterways. Pablo Escobar...

   • Colombian vets begin Escobar hippo sterilisations - BBC News

     Vets in Colombia begin to sterilise hippos descended from...

   • Drought drives hungry hippos into Colombian town - BBC News

     Back in the 1980s Pablo Escobar imported elephants,...

   • Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem - BBC News

     A herd of hippopotamuses once owned by the late Colombian...

   • Pablo Escobar's feral hippos face cull in Colombia - BBC

     Colombia is to cull some of the 166 hippos descended from a...

3. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › pablo-escobarsPablo Escobar's Multiplying 'Cocaine Hippos' Will Be ...

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   Nov 22, 2023 · Colombia has begun sterilizing an invasive herd of hippos dominating rivers near Hacienda Nápoles, the former estate of drug lord Pablo Escobar.

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   Feb 6, 2008 · A herd of hippos once owned by Pablo Escobar, Colombia's famed drug lord, run free on Escobar's former estate-creating a problem for the government. Subscri...

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6. www.nationalgeographic.com › animals › articlePablo Escobar's Escaped Hippos Are Thriving in Colombia

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   May 10, 2016 · It is perhaps fitting that invasive hippos, with their "hungry, hungry" reputations, would be the lasting legacy of one of the world's most notorious drug lords. Colombia's Pablo Escobar built an...

7. www.bbc.co.uk › news › world-latin-america-58937415Pablo Escobar: Colombia sterilises drug lord's hippos - BBC

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   Oct 16, 2021 · 15 October 2021. Getty Images. The hippos at Pablo Escobar's former estate are believed to be the biggest herd outside Africa. A group of hippos - an unwanted legacy following the death of...

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   Is Escobar a runaway hippos?

   • Villalobos regards the real-life runaway hippos as a sort of living, breeding metaphor for Escobar's place in Colombia's national psyche. "It's like a sign of what's happened in Colombia in the last 20 years," he says.

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   Who is Pablo Escobar?

   • Pablo Escobar is a name Colombia has been trying to forget for the last 30 years. One of the most notorious criminals of all time, he was the founder of the infamous Medellín drugs cartel in the 1980s, responsible for kidnappings, bombings and indiscriminate assassinations. At one point he was thought to be one of the world's richest men.

   Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia's hippos - BBC

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   Did Pablo Escobar own a zoo?

   • Situated halfway between the city of Medellin and Bogota, the Colombian capital, Hacienda Napoles was the vast ranch owned by the drugs baron Pablo Escobar. In the early 1980s, after Escobar had become rich but before he had started the campaign of assassinations and bombings that was to almost tear Colombia apart, he built himself a zoo.

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   What happened to Escobar zoo animals?

   • When Escobar was killed by police during a shootout in 1993, his estate was abandoned. Most of the animals either died or were transferred to zoos, except the hippos, which were left to fend for themselves. With no natural predators or droughts—which help control populations in Africa—the hippos thrived.

   Pablo Escobar's Multiplying 'Cocaine Hippos' Will Be Sterilized in

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