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once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago in Puerto Triunfo.Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses.

the environment ministry said the procedure is expensive each sterilization costs about $9.A group of hippos was brought in the 1980s to Hacienda Npoles.Escobars private zoo that became a tourist attraction after his death in 1993.

It was part of a larger government effort to control the population of more than 100 of the mammals that roam around unsupervised in some rivers.Because they have no natural predators here.

because spotting and capturing the territorial.

800 and entails risks for the hippopotamus.noses and even lungs of infants and toddlers.

We did a recent search on Amazon and we got 3.expanded water beads have been found in the stomachs.

said Monday at a news conference organized to rally support for the proposed bill from Rep.I remember sitting in the waiting room.