About 100 hippos of the descendants of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's former pets are now invading Colombia's waterways and poisoning wildlife with their toxic urine and feces, scientists said.
Some notorious drug lords leave behind fancy cars, colossal mansions and bank accounts, a corrupt legacy and horrid past that Hollywood movies are often modeled after, or in the case of El Chapo, a labyrinth of underground tunnels. The infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has left behind a little something different that's exotic and potentially lethal — not fields of coca leaves, but hippopotamuses. The large creatures have multiplied since the fall of his empire and are now running rampant in Colombia.
