The purpose By 2040, 1,400 hippos could occupy the Magdalena basin, Colombia’s largest river. This is the legacy of the menagerie that the otherwise very cruel drug trafficker Pablo Escobar had bought for himself 300 kilometers northwest of Bogota.
After her death in 1993, the animals were rehoused in zoos, except for three female hippos and one male hippopotamus, which were too difficult to transport. They escaped and reproduced at a rate of one offspring per mother every 18 months.
