For the past 30 years, a herd of hippos first introduced by drug lord Pablo Escobar has been terrorizing visitors to the Colombia backcountry. Now, after years of trying to catch and castrate the hippos, the Colombian government is trying a new solution. Escobar’s hippos first arrived in the 1980s, imported as part of a [...]

A two-year-old boy in Uganda was rescued by an onlooker after being attacked by a hippo. Police in the region reported that the hippo had swallowed half of the boy before spitting him out. Incident reportedly happened on December 4 in the southwest district of Katwe-Kabatoro. A spokesperson for the Ugandan Police addressed the issue [...]