Griff Jenkins walks through the bizarre origin and explosive growth of Colombia’s “cocaine hippos,” originally brought in by Pablo Escobar and now numbering in the hundreds with no natural predators and growing ecological and human danger as they overrun rivers and farmland. He explains Colombia’s failed attempts to control the population, including a controversial culling plan that sparked backlash, and highlights a wild new proposal from the son of an Indian billionaire to relocate dozens of hippos to a wildlife refuge in India at a staggering multi-billion-dollar cost due to logistics and transport challenges. The conversation mixes humor and disbelief over the scale of the problem, the political fallout of earlier handling decisions, and the sheer absurdity of trying to “move” one of the world’s most dangerous invasive species.
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