Pablo Escobar

Anant Ambani reitera su oferta de transportar a la India a 80 animales, todos descendientes de las mascotas del capo de la droga colombiano. Sigue siendo uno de los enigmas más extraños de la historia zoológica moderna: ¿qué hacer con los descendientes de los hipopótamos de Pablo Escobar? Los animales —herbívoros nativos del África subsahariana— fueron importados originalmente a Colombia por el capo de la droga para su propio entretenimiento. Pero las bestias y su descendencia quedaron en libertad tras su muerte en 1993. Siga leyendo...

Dozens of feral pachyderms linked to drug kingpin to be killed because of threat to native species and villagersColombian officials have authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos descended from animals brought to the country in the 1980s by Pablo Escobar, after the feral beasts displaced native species and threatened local villagers.The environment minister, Irene Vélez, said the decision was reached because other methods to control their population had been expensive and unsuccessful, including neutering some of the animals or moving them to zoos. Vélez said that up to 80 hippos would be affected by the measure. She did not say when the hunting would begin. Continue reading...