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Drug lord Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' to be sent to India
short by Ankush Verma / on Friday, 3 March, 2023
Colombia is considering relocating 72 hippos, that are the offspring of "cocaine hippos" once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar, to India and Mexico. The "cocaine hippos" escaped and reproduced after police killed Escobar in 1993 and his Hacienda Napoles ranch was left abandoned. Their numbers are growing at a fast pace and pose a threat to biodiversity.
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