What started with one male and three females has grown to 169 invasive hippos.
The descendants of Pablo Escobar’s “cocaine hippos” are facing a cull to stop them multiplying and threatening the environment.
Scientists have said the hippos could pose a potential problem for biodiversity since their faeces change the composition of the rivers and could impact the habitat of manatees and capybaras. After Escobar’s death in 1993, authorities relocated most of the animals from the drug lord’s collection of exotic creatures.However, they did not move the so-called “cocaine hippos” as they were too difficult to transport, and they were left unattended, allowing their numbers to flourish.
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