No, this isn’t a late April Fools joke – a hippo traced back to the late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has reportedly been killed in a car crash.
A car crash has killed a hippopotamus descended from animals illegally imported into Colombia by the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, according to overseas reports.
As reported by the Associated Press, Colombian environmental authorities announced the hippo died instantly after it was struck by an SUV which was travelling on a highway from Bogotá to Medellín.
Despite an average adult male hippo weighing two tonnes – approximately the same mass as a full-size SUV – the vehicle’s occupants were reportedly unharmed during the impact.
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While hippos are native to Africa, drug kingpin Pablo Escobar reportedly brought a group of the mammals into Colombia during the 1980s – housing the animals at a private zoo on his property ‘Hacienda Nápoles’.
Following Escobar’s death in a shootout with Colombian authorities in 1993, the “cocaine hippos” were left to fend for themselves, eventually breaking free of their enclosure and into the wild where they started to breed.
According to the Associated Press international news agency, the Colombian government declared the animal an invasive species last year – though with “more than 100” hippos now roaming around Colombia without natural predators or population control, environmental officials claim there could be as many as 400.
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