Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female ...

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 surgical ...

Colombian photographer Édgar Jiménez is showcasing his portrait of two hippos brought to Colombia by Pablo Escobar in the ...

Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female ...

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 into the ...

The Colombian government has announced a raft of measures to control its growing population of invasive hippos—descendants of animals introduced to the country by the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Environmental authorities in Columbia report a hippopotamus was killed after being hit by an SUV on a highway nearlate drug kingpin Pablo Escobar'shacienda. The hippo was a ...

Sterilization, hunting and other schemes have failed to winnow the herd that has grown since drug Pablo Escobar imported the hippos to Colombia 43 years ago. Years after his 1993 death, some escaped ...

Forrest Galante has bad luck with hippos. He was nearly killed twice by the animals while growing up as a kid in Zimbabwe. So it’s fair to say Galante was treading cautiously this winter as he ...

The drug kingpin brought four hippos to his estate in the 1980s. Officials estimate that about 170 now roam Colombia, and say the population must be controlled to protect the country’s ecosystem. By ...

Source: Steven Castaño/with permission. The case of the Colombian hippopotamuses is a clear example of "bioxenophobia" (or biological xenophobia, a dislike of invasive, alien species) and bias in ...