(CNN) -- Colombia's plans to relocate 70 "cocaine hippos" descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar's private menagerie will cost approximately $3.5 million, officials said in a press conference ...

ANTIOQUIA, Colombia -- The Colombian government will internationally relocate 70 hippos in the coming months at a cost of $3.5 million as the country addresses what it has deemed an invasive species.

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch - descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to ...

Colombia has announced a plan to transfer more than 70 hippos to India and Mexico in an effort to control their population. The animals are descendants of four African hippopotamuses illegally ...

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Colombia’s plans to relocate 70 “cocaine hippos” descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie will cost approximately $3.5 million, officials said in a press conference Wednesday.

The infamous drug lord brought four African hippos to his ranch in the 1980s. Now, with a population of more than 130, the animals are considered a "toxic invasive species" in Colombia Jason Hahn is a ...