Colombia has spent years figuring out the best way to deal with a growing population of invasive hippos that arrived in the ...

Pablo Escobar's beasts had escaped from the cartel kingpin's compound when he died in a police shootout in Medellin, Colombia ...

PABLO Escobar’s herd of randy cocaine hippos have been sentenced to death by judges in Colombia. The “out of control” beasts escaped from the cartel kingpin’s compound when ...

Hippos, known for their strong social bonds, particularly between mothers and calves, experience visible distress when separated by death. The calf's initial reluctance to leave its mother's side is a ...

They belonged to drug lord Pablo Escobar — and just like the notorious underworld criminal, his randy group of ‘cocaine ...

Experts argue that manatee populations could be threatened by the hippos. Attacks on fishermen have also been reported on the ...

Hippos have been a menace in Colombia since the early 1990s and have reproduced to create their largest population outside of ...

Activists and tourism workers oppose the move despite the two-tonne beasts affecting Cundinamarca’s ‘ecological balance’.

In their homeland in Africa, the animals are responsible for more human deaths than almost any other animal, but in Colombia, ...

Only a month after Thailand's adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable.

Khao Kheow Open Zoo, located near Pattaya, is asking its visitors to be on their best behavior when coming to see Moo Deng ...

escaped after his death in 1993 and have since multiplied into a massive invasive population. When Escobar was killed in a police shootout in Medellin, authorities left behind four hippos ...