Indian Billionaire's Son Offers Home to Escobar's Hippos
An Indian billionaire's son has offered to house 80 of Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" at his private zoo in India. This offer comes as the hippos in Colombia face a potential cull due to their uncontrolled population growth.
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Indian billionaire’s son offers to house Pablo Escobar’s hippos at his private zoo
Anant Ambani revives offer to transport 80 animals, all descendants of Colombian drug kingpin’s pets, to India It remains one of the strangest conundrums in modern zoological history – what to do with the descendants of Pablo Escobar’s hippos? The animals – herbivores native to sub-Saharan Africa – were originally imported into Colombia by the drug kingpin for his own entertainment. But the beasts and their offspring were left to roam free after his death in 1993. Continue reading...
By Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
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Indian billionaire heir offers to save 80 of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ from Colombian cull CNN
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An Indian billionaire's son offered on Tuesday to take hippos descended from those introduced to Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, rather than have the animals killed. Anant Ambani, the son of tycoon Mukesh Ambani, said he had formally requested the Colombian government to stay a decision to kill the animals, which have wreaked havoc on rivers in the South American nation.
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