Colombia to spend $3.5 million on relocating Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos'.

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Colombia to spend $3.5 million on relocating Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos'.
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Colombia plans to relocate 70 "cocaine hippos" descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar's private menagerie, which have become an invasive species and pose a threat to agriculture and people's safety. The relocation will cost around $3.5 million and involve transporting 10 hippos to the Ostok Sanctuary in Mexico and 60 to a sanctuary in India. The hippos' population has boomed despite efforts to control it, and their waste has impacted oxygen levels in bodies of water. The transport process is expected to take place by the end of the first semester of the year.

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