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Colombia proposes shipping invasive hippos to India, Mexico

Por: Associated Press Oddities March 03, 2023

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to 3 tons, , located 200 kilometer (124 mile) from Bogota along the Magdalena River. Environmental authorities... + full article



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