While you've probably heard of "Cocaine Bear," you probably haven't heard of the "cocaine hippos" wreaking havoc on one South American nation's ecosystem 40 years after their owner, drug kingpin Pablo ...

After Escobar’s downfall and the abandonment of the estate, some escaped from their ponds and made their way into the river.

PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia -- Colombia may have finally found a solution to one of the less-known legacies of the notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar -- the invading hippo. A handful of hippos, ...

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A bloat of hippopotamuses, whose descendants inhabited Pablo Escobar’s Colombian estate in the 1980s, have been granted personhood and legal rights, according to a federal court order. The ...

PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia — African animals bought with the spoils of one of the world’s most infamous drug traffickers are these days on show for thousands of tourists in a Colombian ecopark. PUERTO ...

In “Pepe,” Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias tells the story of a very special hippopotamus. Or rather, he allows the hippopotamus to tell the story himself. “Pablo Escobar brought three hippos to ...

As dusk settles on the Magdalena Valley, the jungly middle stretch of Colombia’s great river basin, the hippopotamuses bawl and snort. The indelicate groans of these multi-ton beasts border on comedic ...