Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four hippos were originally brought to Columbia in the 1980s and were part of the late drug kingpin's private zoo, Hacienda ...

Colombia plans to kill up to 80 hippos descended from Pablo Escobar’s private collection after they became an invasive animal population, officials said. The late drug lord smuggled four hippos into ...

Colombia has approved plans to cull dozens of hippos roaming across a region in the centre of the country. Environment Minister Irene Velez announced the decision on Monday, with up to 80 of the ...

What began as a bizarre symbol of excess in a drug lord’s private zoo has turned into one of South America’s most unusual environmental crises. Deep in Colombia’s river systems, hundreds of hippos, ...

Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to euthanize dozens of free-range hippos that have invaded the country’s center and threatened villagers since they were first brought in by drug lord ...

DORADAL, Colombia—In a small town in central Colombia, the grunt of hippos has become part of the soundscape. Every afternoon in Doradal, locals and tourists gather at a lake on the edge of town. They ...

Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord’s pets, dividing a town where hippos are the main draw. Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild ...

Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993 after dominating the cocaine trade in the Americas for the previous decade. But the descendants of the notorious drug lord's prized hippos live on in Colombia -- and ...