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Colombia hopes to remove dead drug lord’s hippos

Bogotá, Colombia (AFP) — The governor of a region of Colombia where a herd of some 150 hippos — descendants of animals once owned by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar — are breeding out of control said Monday he hopes for the greenlight to send half of them to sanctuaries in India and Mexico. “We hope that the permits required by the national institutions can be approved in the first half of this year, so that […]