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Indian Tycoon Offers Refuge to Pablo Escobar’s Condemned Hippos
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Indian Tycoon Offers Refuge to Pablo Escobar’s Condemned Hippos

NY Times · Apr 29, 2026, 9:34 PM

Colombia was planning to slaughter 80 hippopotamuses after a small herd imported in the 1980s by the drug lord grew out of control. An Indian tycoon has offered them a new home instead.

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