Colombia has started sterilising hippopotamuses - descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. #Hippo #SouthAmerica #Colombia | Channel 5 News

Escobar’s hippos are a population of hippopotamuses (Hippopotamus amphibius) in Colombia, descended from animals illegally imported by Pablo Escobar in the late 1980s. 🦛 At his Hacienda Nápoles estate, Escobar kept a private zoo of exotic animals, which included one male and three female hippos. 🏡 After his death in 1993, most animals were relocated, but the hippos remained because transporting them was too costly and dangerous. 🚫 In Colombia’s tropical rivers they found ideal conditions: abu