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  1. Colombia will transfer 70 hippos once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar to overseas sanctuaries at a cost of $3.5m.
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    CNNE’s Ángela Reyes Haczek and CNN’s Kathleen Magramo contributed reporting. Colombia’s plans to relocate 70 “cocaine hippos” descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie will cost approximately $3.5 million, officials said in a press conference Wednesday.
    In this file photo from Feb. 4, 2021, hippos float in the lake at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia. Fernando Vergara / AP
    A hippo in the lagoon at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in Colombia. Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP Colombia has said that the cost of transferring 70 hippos that belonged to deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar to overseas sanctuaries will be $3.5m.
    From the original four hippos that escaped from Escobar’s country estate about 130 exist today – the largest population outside Africa. With no natural predators to keep them in check their population will keep growing exponentially. One study estimated that by 2034 the hippos will number 1,400.
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