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Colombia Cooks Up $3.5M Plan to Get Rid of Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos

NOWHERE TO HIDE

Four hippos escaped from the drug lord’s estate. Now there are 130.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

Captured hippopotamuses in a specially designed pen are seen before the application of GonaCon, an immunocastration drug to control the growth of the hippo population, in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia October 8, 2021.
CORNARE via Reuters
Dan Ladden-Hall

Dan Ladden-Hall

Breaking News Editor

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