Two of Escobar's hippos, which were imported from Africa, fled from the zoo in 2006 and had not been seen since. Colombia.
They became something of a local legend until Julian Lineros, a photographer, and Diana Pachon, a reporter, recently went searching for the pair, and apparently found one of the pair near the Magdalena river in the wetlands of northern Colombia, according to a local magazine.
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Pablo Escobar's fugitive hippo spotted in northern Colombia
Jul 10--A hippopotamus that escaped three years ago from a zoo built by Pablo Escobar, the late Colombian drug lord, has been spotted living in the wild.
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9 de julio de 2009 a las 7:00 p. m.