Wild hippos are thriving in Colombia, and they're one of Pablo Escobar's legacies.
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00:00It's like we're in Africa.
00:02It's something that few people have the privilege of.
01:00They're not aggressive at all.
01:25They come and walk around.
01:28And in the morning they go back to their habitat.
01:31But I don't throw anything at anyone,
01:33after I don't let them do it.
01:51Another problem we have identified
01:54is that possibly they are displacing the native fauna.
01:59Among them, the manatee stands out,
02:02which is a species that is in critical danger of extinction,
02:04a native species.
02:06And therefore, it would be generating a problem
02:09for Colombian biodiversity.
02:11We saw the castration as one of the options
02:23to start controlling the population.
02:28However, the castration of these individuals is not easy,
02:32for many factors, among others,
02:34because of how expensive it is to carry out this activity
02:37in these species.