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Favourite story so far. Before meeting his end in a hail of bullets on a Medellín rooftop in 1993, drug lord Pablo Escobar had assembled an impressive zoo. After his death, some of the animals were sent to other zoos, others released and so on - except a pair of African hippos. What to do with them? While the authorities dithered, the hippos multiplied. And multiplied again and again. They decided to send hunters to shoot them because they were terrorising the locals, but riots erupted all over the country so they had to bin that idea. They couldnt send them back to Africa because they are inbred, having descended from the same two hippos. So Colombia is now faced with the dilemma of what to do with Pablo Escobars 50 hippos, the largest breeding colony in the world outside Africa, inbred ones at that, due to double in number every 7 years...
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:50:39 +0000

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