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Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos won't stop multiplying. Colombia wants to move dozens of them out of the country.

Por: CBS News Science March 03, 2023

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Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar's former ranch - descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s — to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population.The so-called —  which weigh up to 3 tons —  , located about 125 miles from Bogota along the Magdalena River. Environmental authorities estimate there are about 130 hippos in... + full article



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