Four decades ago, Pablo Escobar brought to his Medellín hideaway ... veterinarians removed the animals—except the hippos, which were deemed too dangerous to approach. The hippos fled to the ...

A wildlife expert has accused officials responsible for drug lord Pablo Escobar’s private zoo of hippos of secretly planning to kill the animals. The hippos bred in the wild after escaping the ...

On its heyday, the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar was characterized by its use of money and power to stock private zoos and residences with exotic animals such as lions, tigers, hippos and ...

In real life, Pepe was part of a herd of hippos the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar ... in Hacienda Nápoles. When Escobar was killed, in 1993, the fast-breeding animals began roaming around ...