They were just over 13 inches long.

which spread from Escobars estate into nearby rivers where they flourished.said in a video distributed to the press.

the environment ministry said the procedure is expensive each sterilization costs about $9.Most of the animals live freely in rivers and reproduce without control.a plan that was announced in March.

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.A group of hippos was brought in the 1980s to Hacienda Npoles.

once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago in Puerto Triunfo.

Because they are such large animals.Military communications were suspended after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year.

asked what he would consider the outcome of a successful meeting with Xi.being able to pick up the phone and talk to one another if theres a crisis.

and said turning our backs on each other is not an option.just outside of San Francisco.