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Josh Salisbury

Colombia to relocate Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ because they won’t stop breeding

Colombia has proposed moving at least 70 of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ that live near his former ranch because they won’t stop multiplying.

The hippopotamuses are descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the now-deceased drug lord in the 1980s.

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