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 ...

PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia (CIRCA) -The property has made the full transition from Escobar’s drug-fueled shenanigans during the 1970s and '80s, to an African-themed zoo, a water park, and a center for ...

Once part of Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie, a small group of hippos has grown into a large wild population roaming parts ...

Colombia has handed over a portion of the legendary Hacienda Napoles—Pablo Escobar's sprawling ranch best known for its "cocaine hippos"—to women who've survived the country's decades-long armed ...

They’re horny, horny hippos. The Colombian government wants to send Pablo Escobar’s so-called “cocaine hippos” to Mexico and India because the sexed-up mammals won’t stop procreating. The hippos — ...

Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos roaming freely through a region in the center of the country, where they threaten villagers and displace native species years ...

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’. President Gustavo Petro said on ...

From four to nearly 200, Colombia's "cocaine hippos" have been damaging the ecosystem of the Magdalena River for over four decades.

Shot of two hippos at Hacienda NapolesSmithsonian Channel/Edgar Jimenez When Gina Serna set out to control Pablo Escobar’s wild hippos, she didn’t count on the flood of tears. “I was crying a lot,” ...