Escobar Hippos

Anant Ambani relance son offre de transporter vers l'Inde 80 animaux, tous descendants des animaux de compagnie du baron de la drogue colombien. Cela reste l'une des énigmes les plus étranges de l'histoire zoologique moderne : que faire des descendants des hippopotames de Pablo Escobar ? Les animaux – des herbivores originaires d'Afrique subsaharienne – ont été initialement importés en Colombie par le narcotrafiquant pour son propre divertissement. Mais les bêtes et leur progéniture ont été laissées en liberté après sa mort en 1993. Lire la suite...

Anant Ambani, the son of tycoon Mukesh Ambani, said he had put in a formal request to the Colombian government to stay a decision to kill the animals.

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...