COCAINE HIPPOS: Brought Into Colombia by Drug Lord Pablo Escobar 40 Years Ago, the ‘Invasive Species’ Is Breeding Out of Control and Has Started Attacking People
Real life has a way of presenting us with stories that give fiction a run for their money when it comes to how absurd they can sound.
Take the tale of the Cocaine Hippos, for example. If you read that “descendants of illegal hippos imported to Colombia by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s have multiplied and started attacking people”, one is tempted to say: ‘what the hell?’ – but it’s all true.
Many people are not aware that, in Africa, with its many species of dangerous wild animals, no other beast is responsible for more human deaths than the hippopotamuses.
In Colombia, the animals spread from the drug Lord zoo into nearby rivers where they reproduced fast,
