Colombian Locals’ Concerns Rise as Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos Multiply and Attacks Increase

The descendants of Pablo Escobar’s “cocaine hippos” are reportedly multiplying, inflicting rising issues amongst locals about their rising presence.

In keeping with CNN and Vice, there are at the moment about 170 hippos roaming northwest Colombia.

Native officers are actually working to deal with points associated to the invasive species, which reportedly have begun attacking individuals.

As reported by CBS Information and Vice, residents who’ve encountered the animals have been hospitalized.

“They’re very, very dangerous,” one native informed FOX Information.

College students and fogeys at a college in Doradal reportedly encountered one of many descendants of “cocaine hippo” when one of many animals appeared within the schoolyard whereas they have been current.

“The mothers get scared when they see an animal of that size,” stated instructor Dunia Arango.

In keeping with a neighborhood environmental official, David Echeverri, a number of hippos have settled in a lake 20 yards from the college and he worries that the 35 youngsters who play close by might “provoke a tragedy” by interacting with the animals.

“While they may look very calm, at any moment, given their highly unpredictable behavior, they can attack, as has happened before,” Echeverri added.

4 hippos from Escobar’s personal zoo in Hacienda Nápoles have been dropped at Colombia within the Eighties. After Escobar’s loss of life in 1993, they have been deserted, rapidly multiplying, as per Vice and NPR.

Consultants warn that with out intervention, the hippo inhabitants might surge to 1,000 by 2035.