With no natural predators around and a massive river — the Magdalena — at their disposal, the amphibious mammals continue to thrive and expand in Colombia. (To be clear, these hippos are not addicted ...

Olaf Kyros Gustafsson, a.k.a. “El Silencio,” has been accused of running a global scam in which he sold Pablo Escobar-branded ...

Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo, Yoko the chimpanzee ...

Photo: AFP via Getty Images. Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" must be slaughtered to stop them from ruining Colombia's natural habitat, scientists have claimed. According to the Telegraph ...

Pereira (Colombia) (AFP) – Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending ... including tigers and lions, and even hippos and giraffes. Yoko was taught to ...

Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo ... including tigers and lions, and even hippos and giraffes. Yoko was taught to smoke ...

While the drug lord’s pet hippos may have received more publicity ... limiting her mobility and wellbeing. After the Colombian government banned the use of animals in circus shows in 2013 ...

a Colombian senator of the Green Alliance who oversaw Yoko's "deeply symbolic" transfer. "From a very young age, Yoko was a victim of trafficking and trade, passed from one drug trafficker to ...

An elephant who once had an infamous owner has died of old age. Raina was rescued from the circus and lived out the last 15 ...