In 1981 Pablo Escobar flew four hippos into his private zoo north of Medellín; the estate was seized, the hippos were left because nobody knew how to move them, and the last government census put their descendants in the Magdalena basin at around 200

In 1981 Pablo Escobar flew four hippos into his private zoo north of Medellín; the estate was seized, the hippos were left because nobody knew how to move them, and the last government census put their descendants in the Magdalena basin at around 200

Four hippos abandoned in Colombia's jungle have multiplied into a crisis that authorities still don't know how to solve. The post In 1981 Pablo Escobar flew four hippos into his private zoo north of Medellín; the estate was seized, the hippos were left because nobody knew how to move them, and the last government census put their descendants in the Magdalena basin at around 200 appeared first on Space Daily.