Colombia's hippopotamus population — all descendants of four hippos illegally imported by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s — can be legally hunted under a new court order. Officials in Bogota gave ...

Photo: RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP Hippos introduced to Colombia by the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar must be hunted, a Colombian court said last week. Escobar brought the hippopotami to Colombia as additions ...

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PABLO Escobar's herd of randy cocaine hippos have been sentenced to death by judges in Colombia. The "out of control" beasts escaped from the cartel kingpin's compound when he died in a police ...

Notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar's herd of cocaine hippos has finally been sentenced to death by judges in Colombia. The beasts escaped from the cartel kingpin's compound when he died in a ...

But in Colombia, the flora and fauna can’t feed on it and risk being killed off. And so just like their deceased drug kingpin owner, officials have now issued a death warrant for the hippos.

After Escobar was killed in 1993, the Colombian government took over the ranch. Since then, the herd of hippos have escaped ...

A Colombian court on Friday called for the hunting of hippos, introduced to the country ... human deaths than almost any other animal, but in Colombia, the hippopotami have become loved members ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia–A Colombian court on Friday called for the hunting of hippos, introduced to the country in the 1980s by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The Administrative Court of Cundinamarca set ...