Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ face grim end as they threaten to overrun Colombia

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Hippo Jakira eats cake made out of fruit on her birthday in Colombia on July 15, 2018. Jakira is the daughter of Pepa, imported by Pablo Escobar in the 1980's. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Colombia will euthanize dozens of invasive hippos descended from animals once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar, in a controversial move underscoring the growing environmental and public safety risks posed by the species decades after their introduction to the South American country.

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