Pablo Escobar's Multiplying 'Cocaine Hippos' Will Be Sterilized in ...
WEBNov 22, 2023 — Colombia has begun sterilizing an invasive herd of hippos dominating rivers near Hacienda Nápoles, the former estate of drug lord Pablo Escobar. The roughly 170 hippopotamuses are descended...
Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' can be legally recognized ... - NBC News
WEBThe offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people or “interested persons” with legal rights in the U.S. following a federal court order.
Colombia to Sterilize Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’
WEBNov 18, 2023 — When the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, most of the animals he had imported as pets — zebras, giraffes, kangaroos and rhinoceroses — died or were transferred to zoos. But...
As Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" keep multiplying ... - CBS News
WEBNov 3, 2023 — Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, through...
How a drugs lord's 'cocaine hippos' got out of control in Colombia
WEBMay 8, 2023 — The late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar had a taste for the exotic. He famously stocked his private zoo with giraffes, zebras and hippopotamuses, and some of those African hippos escaped...
US judge: Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos legally ‘people’
WEBOct 25, 2021 — A U.S. court order says the offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people with legal rights in the U.S.
Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" are legally people, U.S ... - CBS News
WEBOct 26, 2021 — The offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people or "interested persons" with legal rights in the U.S. following a federal court order.
Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ face Colombian government cull
WEBNov 3, 2023 — Pablo Escobar’s notorious “cocaine hippos” are facing a cull, according to a statement from Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development Thursday.
Pablo Escobar: Colombia sterilises drug lord's hippos - BBC News
WEBOct 16, 2021 — Escobar, who was shot dead by police in 1993, illegally imported exotic animals, including a male and a female hippo - dubbed the "cocaine hippos".
Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ spark conservation row - Nature
WEBMar 2, 2023 — Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad has triggered fear among researchers that she will protect, rather than reduce, a growing population of invasive hippos that threaten the...