An elephant who once had an infamous owner has died of old age. Raina was rescued from the circus and lived out the last 15 ...

"They're very, very dangerous,” one local told FOX Nation. Pablo Escobar's 'Cocaine Hippos' Become First Animals in U.S. to Be Considered Legal 'Persons' Students and parents at a school in ...

Pablo Escobar's hippos have multiplied and spread since his death in 1993. There are now around 200 of the hippos living in the Rio Magdalena and other Colombian waterways. Photo by Juancho Torres / ...

Four decades ago, Pablo Escobar brought to his Medellín hideaway four hippopotamuses, the centerpieces of a menagerie that included llamas, cheetahs, lions, tigers, ostriches and other exotic fauna.

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Their existence in the country began with the import of four individuals by drug lord Pablo Escobar. The four hippopotamuses later escaped into the wild. In January, biologists and other experts ...

Bogota The infamous Pablo Escobar, who terrorized Colombia during the 1980s and early 1990s, resulted in thousands of deaths. And in the 1980s, he smuggled four hippos from a wildlife park in ...

But what started out as about 16 of the animals roaming the compound grounds, where they eventually escaped into the countryside, has grown to about 200.

Raina was rescued from the circus and lived out the last 15 years of her life on Pablo Escobar’s estate before she died on Monday morning, aged 70. While the drug lord’s pet hippos may have ...