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.
They are not known to have any taste for raw coca leaf. But the hungry hippos of Colombia’s Antioquia department have been rampaging through too much of the marshy flora that lines the waterways of the Magdalena River basin.
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