Animal sanctuary facilities in India and Mexico have agreed to take in 70 invasive African hippopotamuses that descend from those once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Originally, four hippos, three females and a male, were kept in captivity at the ranch of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, based in Medellin, Colombia.
Gov. Anibal Gaviria told lawmakers in the department’s assembly Wednesday that it would be a delicate operation. Of the 70 marked for export, 10 would be sent to the Ostok Sanctuary in Culiacan in Mexico’s, Sinaloa state, and the remaining 60 would be shipped to India.
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