Baby ‘cocaine hippos’ snatched by traffickers

Baby cocaine hippos bred from the offspring of drugs boss Pablo Escobar's escaped herd are being snatched from the rainforest and sold illegally, say wildlife officials in Colombia.

A herd of nearly 200 of the beasts have spawned in the wild after their original four ancestors escaped from the cartel king's compound after he was shot by police in 1993.
Now, say Colombia's wildlife experts, traffickers are snatching cute-looking hippo calves to sell to black market customers.
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