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.
Now, the expanding population of feral hippopotamuses have become such an environmental blight, they are facing a mass extermination by the authorities.
Yet they may have found an unlikely stay of execution, after they were offered shelter in India by the son of a billionaire.
