Cocaine Hippos: Colombia to send 60 hippos to India, drug trafficker Pablo Escobar has a close relationship

Bogotá, India will soon receive 60 hippos from Colombia. According to a CNN report, Colombia plans to send 70 of its cocaine-addicted hippos to India and Mexico. Of a total of 70 hippos, 60 will be sent to India, while 10 will be sent to Mexico. There are currently between 130 and 160 hippos in Colombia, which were brought by Pablo Escobar. These cocaine-addicted hippos are the descendants of four hippos, one male and three females, believed to have been brought from Africa or the United States in the 1970s.

According to the Washington Post, when Escobar turned himself in to authorities in 1991, the government let the animals Pablo brought in roam free. The released hippos breed in local rivers and in favorable climatic conditions. The hippos, which weigh up to 3 tons, have spread to the Hacienda Napoles ranch, 200 kilometers (124 mi) from Bogotá along the Magdalena River.

Environmental officials have also estimated that there are about 130 hippos in the territory of the province of Antioquia and that their population could reach 400 in eight years. Scientists have warned that the hippopotamus has no natural predators in Colombia and is a potential problem for biodiversity. Last year, the Colombian government declared them toxic invasive species. They are said to pose a threat to the local ecosystem and sometimes also to humans. Previously, as CNN reports, officials have also attempted to control their population using castration and contraceptive darts, but with limited success.

Lina Marcela de los Rios Morales, director of animal protection and welfare at the Antioquia Ministry of Environment, told The Associated Press that plans to move them to India and Mexico have been in the works for a while. more than a year. There are plans to send 60 hippos to the Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Kingdom located in the Indian state of Gujarat. The other 10 hippos will go to zoos and sanctuaries in Mexico, such as Ostoc in Sinaloa.

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