To manage the burgeoning population of hippos descended from animals imported by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, Colombia has initiated a sterilization program. On Tuesday, environmental authorities sterilized two male and one female hippopotamus, marking the beginning of a broader government campaign to address the more than 100 hippos freely roaming some […]
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Hippo crushes to death ranger who dedicated his life to protecting the animals from poachers in South Africa: Colleagues are forced to kill the animal in doomed bid to save him
A brave bush ranger was crushed to death in the jaws of a rampaging hippo, after it ambushed a dawn patrol along a riverbank in a nature reserve in South Africa. Experienced patroller Sphamandla Mthembu, 31, was with three fellow rangers at the Mkhuze Game Reserve 180 miles north of Durban shortly after sunrise, protecting […]