Moving Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' to Mexico and India will cost Colombia an estimated $3.5 million

Hippos float in the lagoon at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

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• Colombia's plan to transport 70 "cocaine hippos" to Mexico and India will cost an estimated $3.5m.
• It will be expensive because of how hard and costly it is to anesthetize hippos.
• Some 130 hippos live in and around the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's former ranch.

Moving 70 so-called "cocaine hippos" from near Pablo Escobar's...