JAKARTA - Colombia plans to fly nearly 70 hippos - descendants from private zoo drug dealer Pablo Escobar - to their new homes in India and Mexico. As an effort to control their booming population.
Reporting from CNN International, Saturday, March 4, there are currently around 130 and 160 hippos in Escobar's former zoo.
And just so you know, this number according to the Colombian government, has spread far beyond the former Escobar farm in Hacienda Napoles. In the past, the initial population consisted of only one male and three females.
The original hippo is part of an exotic animal collection that Escobar collected in the 1980s on his farm about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Mede totaling. After his death in 1993, authorities relocated most of the other animals, but not hippos because it was too difficult to transport.
As a result, they reproduce quickly. Expand their reach along the Magdalena River valley and pose environmental challenges and worry about the closest population.
A study in the journal Nature warns their number could swell to 1,500 in two decades.
Previously, authorities had tried to control their population by using castration and injection'' of contraceptive arrows. But contraceptive impetus has limited success.
"Now there are plans to move 70 hippos to the nature reserve in India and Mexico," said the governor of Antioquia province, where Hacienda Napoles is located, in a Tweet.
A total of 70 hippos, male and female mixtures, are expected to be moved to India and 10 to Mexico.
The technical term for this operation is "translocation," Governor An waybal Gaviria explained in an interview with the Colombian Blu Radio outlet. Because this will involve moving hippos from one country that is not its natural habitat to another that is also not its natural habitat.
The goal is to bring them to countries that have the capacity to accept them and can control their reproduction.
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