{"id":13597,"date":"2022-10-16T07:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/10\/16\/castrating-pablo-escobars-hippos-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2022-10-16T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T07:40:59","slug":"castrating-pablo-escobars-hippos-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=13597","title":{"rendered":"Castrating Pablo Escobar&#8217;s hippos &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in 1993, having built a billion dollar cocaine empire, he left behind a zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">While his rhinos, giraffes, elephants and kangaroos were re-housed, the hippos were left in Escobar\u2019s abandoned ranch in the Colombian countryside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 2007 they started turning up 100 kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Vet Carlos Valderrama was called in to tackle the problem. He describes his experience of castrating a hippo in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Listen to more on this story from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct3c62\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-63242627?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in 1993, having built a billion dollar cocaine empire, he left behind a zoo. While his rhinos, giraffes, elephants and kangaroos were re-housed, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}