The hippos are the descendants of four brought to the country in the 1980s by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar as he built a ...

Authorities say killing dozens of hippos is the only way to curb a booming population threatening Colombia’s wildlife and ...

The invasive hippo population derives from the original four mammals that the drug lord brought into the country in the 1980s ...

The cocaine hippos escaped Pablo Escobar's ranch after the drug lord was killed by national police in 1993. Since then, they ...

Introduced by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, the hippos are a tourist attraction but a headache for authorities and locals.

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

Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to euthanize dozens of free-range hippos that have invaded the country’s ...

AROUND 80 hippos smuggled into Colombia by drug baron Pablo Escobar will be executed after the out-of-control herd started to ...

Decades after the drug lord brought in the first hippos for his private zoo, their descendants have become a threat to ...

From fish and turtles, to hippos and crocodiles, about 43% of all known large freshwater animal species have been ...