Escobar Hippos

Anant Ambani 重新提出将 80 只动物（均为哥伦比亚毒枭宠物的后代）运往印度的建议。这依然是现代动物学历史上最奇怪的难题之一——该如何处理 Pablo Escobar 留下的河马后代？这些原产于撒哈拉以南非洲的草食动物最初由该毒王为了个人娱乐而进口到哥伦比亚。但在他 1993 年去世后，这些野兽及其后代被留在那里自由活动。阅读详情...

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...