Last Updated: April 15, 2023, 16:25 IST
The hippo had wandered onto the freeway and collided with a car on Wednesday.
After Pablo Escobar’s dying, most animals of his zoo had been relocated. Except for hippos, as they had been too troublesome to move and due to this fact, had been deserted.
A hippo descended from the non-public menagerie of late drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in a horrific freeway crash in Colombia earlier this week. Local officers mentioned on Wednesday, April 12, that the collision came about on a street between Medellin and Bogota. The hippo, which had wandered onto the freeway, collided with a car and died on the spot. The occupants of the SUV concerned within the collision had been unhurt, in keeping with NBC. The stays of the animal had been faraway from the scene and brought for evaluation. The incident has highlighted the hazards posed by Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ in Colombia.
Brought illegally into the nation by the drug kingpin within the Eighties, the hippos had been half of his non-public zoo at his ranch close to Medellin. When Escobar was killed in a shootout with authorities in 1993, most of the animals of his zoo had been relocated. But the hippos proved too troublesome to move and had been deserted. In the absence of pure predators, the numbers elevated steadily and the animals unfold from Escobar’s property to the close by rivers. According to reviews, there are about 130 hippos in Colombia. Scientists have warned that the inhabitants might leap to 400 in eight years.
While the folks dwelling close by have turn into accustomed to the animals, the Colombian authorities has not too long ago declared them to be an invasive species. According to analysis, the presence of hippos in Colombia poses a risk to the atmosphere, agriculture and folks’s security.
Talking in regards to the hippo’s dying in a freeway accident, David Echeverri López, a biologist at Cornare, the native environmental authority, mentioned that the aggressive animal posed a big hazard to the locals.
“This (the collision) is one of the dangers that the presence of this species represents. Many of them cross the highway where many vehicles pass, it is also a danger to people,” he mentioned.
The Colombian authorities had earlier tried to regulate the inhabitants of the animals by sterilizations and contraceptive darts, however couldn’t make a lot headway. The authorities had not too long ago introduced a $3.5 million (Rs 28 crore) plan to relocate 70 hippos to sanctuaries in Mexico and India. As per reviews, 60 hippos will go to India and the remaining to Mexico.
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