How this drug lord created a hippo problem in Colombia
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- It’s a hippo invasion.
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Drug lord Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into his own personal zoo during the 1980’s. But wild hippos are usually only native to Africa and their escape after Escobar’s death has left Colombia with an unexpected problem. Due to reproduction, there are now dozens roaming around one of the country’s rivers.
This episode looks at how the presence of these hippos affects Colombia’s biodiversity and how people became fond of their presence.
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Vox your a bunch of scumbags
What about VOXtours
They can introduce the natural predator of the hippos into the same region to keep the ecosystem and species population in check..?
send them back to Africa
You should do a follow up video I wanna see what more they've done!
I legit thought it was about Pablo Escobar using hippos to traffic cocaine
LMFAO SAME
Same , but I guess this is still interesting
My dude
Thumbnail got me like "How did he use these Hippos?" Great video doc.
😂😂😂
**when you’re so rich you add another species to South America**
@@Cravberry can't you laugh for once in your life.
A H your mom doesn’t love you
This joke is funny and if it isnt to you maybe you are under 12
@@Trollika_Devi 🤔 did you mentally regress with time
Mr Mister *you’re
This is the funniest problem a country has ever faced
Latisha
Australia had a Great War against emus in the 1920’s...
Adobe Nerd i came here to mention thay
I think it was Ecuador that had a war against goats
Edit: it was Ecuador, not Peru
@@OldDanTucker ecuador
@@j.m.d.a1496 oh thanks
You can actually feel the poor guy's exasperation at the sheer absurdity of his predicament when he was talking about the different methods they've tried and failed at to contain the hippos.
I swear a hippo laughed at 7:42 when he said people thought hippos were charismatic and tender.
Barrharrharrharrharr BRAAARHARRHARRHARRHARR
HO HO HO HO HO
Laughs in spanish
Heard that!!😂😂😂
and it sounded funnier in spanish
@@blod40jajajajajaja
Plot twist: The hippos are the ones actually trafficking cocaine.
Hipplo escobar
omg what if he trafficked cocaine inside of them like the pregnant women
@@wunderlichcatt4420 BOT REPROT IT
No wonder those hungry hungry hippos eat all those 8balls
@@billgotti8037 🤣
"More people are killed by hippos in Africa than any other animal"
Mosquitoes: o_o
That’s an insect
@@ludde8405 They are also animals.They come under phylum arthropoda of Kingdom animalia.
they mentioned wild animals*
@@josephkuruvilla2041 he said mammal
He said mammal. Btw
A “hippopotamus invasion” is the coolest thing I’ve heard in a while.
2020- nooo-
It is NOT cool. I live in Uganda, East Africa and let me tell you Hippos are DANGEROUS!
It's not invasion, they were invited instead
@Im Shur In water yes! So don't go rafting on river with hippos. Hippos are extremely territorial on water.
But on land, maybe not. But they are unpredictable and I guess this is what makes hippos more dangerous.
In my country, hippos have designated territory, most of them are in game parks away from human settlements.
You want to see hippos, you do it with a guide through the game park. One that is trained to keep you safe.
Simply put, hippos don't coexist in the same territory with humans!
It would be cool but that means you gotta share a river with Moto Moto
Fun fact: a hippo can break your body in half in one bite.
Something the locals are unaware of it. Just one fatal accident and look how the table will turn...
Your definition of “fun” is very different from mine
Annie Lee I’m assuming you’ve never played tag with a hippo
Niko Chevinson Fatal* Fact
Its more like a warning. Lol
Moto-Moto moved to Colombia, now he is called Mótez-Mótez.
That's not funny...
My last name is Rodríguez
It’s Colombia, how hard is it to read the title and spell it the same way? God
martin martinez
@@squeen666 No te sulfures papito.
😂🤣
“Fences don’t work” that was a fence? 😭😭
Henraay 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They should build a wall. Nobody likes fences
@@wolfgangbr1576 easy there Trump
@@Donts_blackwell Everybody knows it
@ArchMage001 that is the most accurate analogy of current us politics i've ever seen
USA: We need healthcare, gun reforms and BLM
UK: We need to deal with growing terrorism.
India: We need to tackle Poverty.
New Zealand: We will tackle Climate change
Colombia: Please get rid of Pablo's Hippos.
Also
Australia: We started a war with emu
USA does not need gun reforms or BLM.
There is a lot of corruption here, it is the biggest problem we have here. Murders, kidnappings,robberies, drug trafficking and many more, not just some hippos 😅
(I understood that it is a joke but we really have a lot of problems 😶)
@@acwor7857 and poverty, and a lot
Congo : We need to tackle Coltan
That has to be one of the poorest attempts at building a hippo-containing wall I've ever seen
And we've seen them all!
and to think that Pablo was loaded with all this money...
Oh my gaad
SOVIE_LP 😂 😂
@Cre it's gonna be HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE
As a farmer myself, those fences wouldn't keep in a decent sized cow much less a hippo!
Tiger 864 totally hahaha
Yeah the solution is to build a real fence
I think concrete walls are enough. I keep a hippo in my basement and it hasn't broke out yet, it's called my wife.
make me some golden toast
@@k2ggers961 I was expecting to get golden toast, but all I got was a dark joke
it's funny that even being dead for decades pablo escobar still manages to bring chaos in clombia whatta monster
Movies corner it’s funny when accounts reword top comments to try and get likes
The other person called him legend
I liked that you actually called him a monster and not a "legend" as some ignorant people say. Greetings from Colombia 🇨🇴🇨🇴
@JohnRC he was a monster to every extent.
Lol Hippo laughing at them at 7:42 when the guy said hippos are good- natured and tender.
that is the face of a scientist running out of patience with society.
You know youre government sucks when you are actively protecting an invasive species. Obviously no scientist was consulted in that legislation
you can't just search up in the internet that i have a bunch of hippos in my area how can i fix it up
$$$ When man has killed all the Hippos in Africa, people are gonna be pumped they are alive and healthy in Colombia $$$
This stupidity is making the Zanesville animal massacre seem more reasonable...
These hippos are refugees
Imagine living a lavish life, then realizing your homies are all in Africa struggling....hm
The true american dream realized !
Sincerely Eccentric 😂😂😂facts and then the possibility of being taken back to Africa. They’re shooked
Lmao dude
Like African Americans. They should be sent back to Africa. Ro stop crying muh... Racism.
lovepeople Hu uh, no person will be forcefully sent anywhere. Also saying “muh” doesn’t automatically mean you’re gonna make a good point. In this case, it just is racism :(
I’m surprised there aren’t any genetic defects, since starting out with only 4 hippos there must be a lot on inbreeding. Kind of like in Mississippi or West Virginia!
Vegetation maybe(?)
John Wedgeworth SWEET HOME ALABAMA
I think those thing dont apply to hippos... similar to breeding Wagyu cows.
@@eltonjohntubola3212 usually takes longer to see... Less resilience against disease etc. rather than "five feet" :)
You can't say they don't have genetic defects based on a few shots of a CZcams video... Probably they do, you just couldn't see
Everybody gangsta til the Hippos starts staring att you
Thanks for watching everyone! If you watch the TV show “Narcos” you can see the Hippos in Episode 5 of Narcos Mexico at about the 40 minute mark. Hopefully you now have a better understanding of how they got there.
Johnny Harris I love you Johnny!
Johnny Harris I love the Vox Border series, Keep up the fantastic work!!!
Thanks
jaisnav rajesh thank you!!
Make a video about population crisis in INDIA!!!
Hippos: *IM LIVING MY BEST LIFFFEEE*
Down Hill 'Lombia.
lol i caught that line too.
😂😂😂
@ ain't going back and forth with you humans
They read Joel Olsteen'a book.
that "we hunt jaguars, pumas, bears (legally) but not hippos" line got me scratching my head in confusion
In Kenya we dig trenches along rivers and lakes to contain them. That's so far the best way.
It's all fun and games until you wake up one morning and see some sort of moose-whale-cow vigorously mating with your Prius.
fyi they don't have Prius's in Colombia
Justin Dove exactly. Why do you think they want to keep out the hippos?
@@justindove5486 its called a joke
Prius??
@Galo Arizaga the hippos.
Moto Moto is having fun
Im almost going to comment this lol
crying Lenny;c same
LMAO
Motto Motto likes you
He likes them big
VOX: “Hippos are dangerous.”
Hippo: “bro, we just chilling in our pool. We are not bothering you. You’re the one bothering us.”
They do be vibin tho
@@rishidronadula2493 oh please we humans are causing trouble to nature. We are continuously destroying natural habitats, polluting earth, exploiting natural resources. Here you are worried about 500 people😠😠. What about animals being hunted!!
You are rude.😡
@@AbCd-fc8yk so those 500 innocent lives are worthless? The point is that hippos do not belong here and invasive species can be terrible for a native animal population, take for example the stone toads. They caused the population of the green- gold poison dart frogs to drop to near extinct, thier population was in the single digits and that caused the predators that were killed by these frogs to run rampant and destroy the native flora and fauna. It's only a matter of time. I recommend reading up on invasive species or watching videos, cos just cos there's more of an animal, it isn't a good thing.
The whole point is that hippos can spread unchecked, any animal with no natural competition is dangerous to the ecosystem. Even species out of place can cause a massive ripple effect.
@@rishidronadula2493 you live in africa? hippos are territorial, so literally deaths occur when people trespass on their territory. They don't go out attacking people.
7:42 that hippo laughing whilst he's explaining the farce of hippos, I spat my coffee
I cant believe Colombia's hippocracy...
Daryl Solis hahahaha, that’s the kind of comment i check the comments section for
😂
You win 😂
take your like and leave
You win
The legacy of Pablo Escobar continues lol
"Legacy"
Robbie Backpacking crazy how he did all that
@Michaelveli9 lol
@Michaelveli9 from hippies to hippos
it’s actually pretty cool
just wait until these hippos are their own new species, the Colombian hippopotamus (Hippopotamus colombiensis)! the only living hippo species outside of Africa
That'd be super cool to witness
Maybe in the world, When it becomes extinct in Africa. coming soon
@@LiticoBunenditcher hippos can't become Extinct in Africa, they're too much and too excelling
Is sad to see these hippos having more fun than I've ever had in my whole life
lucky them:
no bills
free food
dont need to work
These hippos. Coming into our home. Eating our food. Hunting our crocodiles.
Immigra Hippo
Hippo Heaven ranks 17th in all the animal heavens.
Why do i always see you in every comment section?
@@dummypg6129 because he is omnipresence
I love this comment so much
@Jesus Christ what's the top 5?
What about parrots?
And this is a reason why is so awesome to be a Colombian...
Yeah, thanks Pablo! And Duque! And Uribe! And M-19! And the FARC! Amazing country!
Mr rubio
First I thought, Pablo armed Hippos to guard his house after his death.
Narcos Season 5 should be these hippos attacking the Colombian government to avenge their fallen owner.
hahaha.
im wheezing
Si si claro
😂😂😂😂
WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS?
The part where he says "they are just living their best lives" really tickled me LOL 😆
What... What does this mean..?
I found it hilarious. 😂
Keep up the great work, slowly gaining more insight about the world with each video I'm watching..
"The park cannot contain the hippos". Fitting that the park seems to have a Jurassic Park theme. 😬
New hippo species... Hippopotamus Escobaris. 😂😂😂
@Matthew Tenorio_3200654 not necessarily
@Matthew Tenorio_3200654 you assume wrong... It doesn't take millions of years to make a new species, with human intervention it could much much less than that. Not sure why you thought I was a creationist when I said nothing about any kind of religion or god
Yes, it can happen,new variant at least
Hippos are reincarnation of Pablo Escobar, bribing officials and locals with their charm now.🤣
Lol that sounds so cute I can't take it seriously
10/10 best light hearted joke I've seen in a while.
They got judges on their side. This is getting criminal soon.
Hippos in Colombia: I’m livin my best life🎶
Never underestimate the nature-altering, footprint one human being can leave behind.
Who would win?
*A government* or *1 big drug boi with 4 hippos*
Apparently so far it's the hippos, without the drug boi.
Hey careful
@@ninjashark9531 we will rule the world
Hippsthehippo hey let him know he can’t disrespect Pablo Escobar like that. In fact I recommend he deletes this comment. He clearly don’t know.
Ninja Shark bruh
This is what happened with rabbits in Australia.
Err, no.
I think your thinking of brumbies and crocodiles.
Yeah the brumby situation is ridiculous
This is what happened to CAMELS in Australia
@@crozraven I forgot cane toads, feral cats, feral dogs, feral pigs and feral rats.
I love what you guys do!
never cease to amaze me vox!
i think thats Pablo Escobar reincarnated along with his gang
the common people love them
angeloulicious HAHAHAHA
nO
No such thing as reincarnation
@@blackswordsman8549 Could you take a joke omg
@@blackswordsman8549 r/woooosh
Yes! A new Borders episode is always a highlight of a day! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Aspect Science I love your channel
Post new content already. Can't wait.
surfie007 thank you! :)
Nidhin M haha new video next week!
Aspect Science that's so far away 😱
The hippos just be vibin
Look out, I think Moto Moto likes you... (Pablo Escobar emerges from the water)
HERE HE COMES
i like em big (keyboard went to French while writing this lmao)
Yes
Evan lolllll
Most underrated comment
This is why Pablo threatened to feed Felix to the hippos in Narcos: Mexico.
Savva Brown That episode was filthy
But hippos don't like mexicans
Savva Brown lmaoooo that’s the only reason i clicked the video
I binge watched the whole season yesterday
Narcos Tv serie is Dope.Real Dope
Gotta love hitting a old vox video and seeing a familiar face like Johnny Harris
This story is even more interesting when you know that most of those animals were brought to Colombia with the help form the colombian Air Force in their C130’s in the 80’s, there was a time when authorities didn’t know, or didn’t want to know that Pablo Escobar was that dangerous and helped him with a lot of them. The even arrived through the most important Air Force base of the COLOMBIAN Air Force, imagine smuggling animals and things through Nellis Air Force base in USA.
Escobar is still alive and his violence is still present and maintained by his mighty hippos
amithacker02 that’s because GOD does not want to forgive him for ruining families from his trade...Whether you believe in GOD or not I’m positive you would agree.
Some say Escobar himself was secretly a hippo
bigman19916 r/woooooooosh
🤣🤣🤣
This comment has me rolling 😂
Who would win?
An entire nation
Or
50 big grey bois
Vasily N 50 big grey bois
Vasily N p, moto moto would win
Me
I do know the entire country, and I am sure the 50 grey big bois would win against colombia
Vasily N boiss
Moving the hippos away was the first solution that came in to my mind
Definitely my favorite vox video on the channel. These hippos are just obliviously living their best life hah
I hope those hippos aren’t hungry... or even worse *hungry hungry*
Lmaooooo
Lol but I wonder if these hippos are more carefree and less aggressive because of that..pfft but nowhere near enough interested to look into it any further
I'll be sure to keep my marbles away
Nate and Noah Try Life just dont keep marbles in your pockets
Do you mean Starving?
This man walking around in Columbia looking for hippos while in flip flops...
with "O"
@kragseven well, he could run faster with shoes and maybe reach a tree or some other safe space in case they attack him. Hippos are pretty fast and dangerous as hell; as they explain in the video! What a question!
*CoLuMbIa FIX UR GOD DAM SPELLING IT'S COLOMBIA WITH AN O*
Ikr i wouldn’t step foot anywhere down down there in anything but a 8 inch boot
@kragseven how about you use your brain instead of asking stupid questions?
Two weeks ago we had the first dangerous attacks against a citizen here in Colombia..
I wish people here at least get the ability to recognize that these creatures are dangerous and aren't part of the original wildlife of Colombia
everytime he says hippo I laugh 😂 why do I find the word hippo so funny HAHAHAHA
Hippos in the day,crack dealer at night
_Well played Pablo...well played_
Gg pablo
I like them B I G
I like them C H U N K Y
I like them B I G
I like them P L U M P Y
i think moto moto likes you
I like em round
With something something
i love VOX's videos they are soo enjoyale
Lit hippo beat at the end 😎
Even biologists in Colombia seem badass. 3:37 😂
How to enrage a colombian? Call Colombia Columbia.
@Chase Isham believe me, it annoys me
you commented 5 times. stop lol
I'm Colombian and I could care less of how it gets pronounced, as long as it's done without any malice.
@@metromed5911 How about with arrogance and ignorance?
I live in Colombia and i had no idea about this haha, very interesting.
Is there still dead bodies on road?
and people just walk around like nothing??
@@seniya8095 No
you sleeping
That was in the 80's - mid 90's. Colombia has changed a lot since then, specially Medellín, the city where Pablo Escobar lived. I'm not saying there's absolutely no crimes now, there are like in many other countries, but not like that era.
@@felipemejia3501 well few people in a group chat uploaded couple of vedios which were VERY DISTURBING .
People speaked spanish and looked like from south America.
Everyone gangsta till a hippo bites someone's head
It's so satisfying hearing that guy speak
Pablo in Narcos: “I want some hippos guys. I want hippos. If they ever get me they won’t have the Medellin cartel to deal with, but let’s see how they handle 4 hippos.”
“Sure Pablo....”
poorly apparently
*Si, Pablo :P
Si señor
ianericson "si patron"
Idk why but the footage of the hippo "wandering" at 3:52 made me laugh so hard... looks like he got caught sneaking out of the house by his parents or something 😂😂😂
Omg yes
Generation Babe literally as I read this comment I was on the exact time you said🤣
"There was a guy who selled forest resources to the world and became rich, so he adopted 4 hippos, but then teh cops killed him, now the Hippos are now breeding in the ponds"
-Jeremy Clarkson
Anyone thinks he is so brave to just stand there and film the hippos ? They are deadly as far as I know.
they gonna see that hunting aint so bad after 1 or 2 kids go missing by the lake
That's what I'm waiting for.
The lakes are in a themed park, it’s in the middle of nowhere and you have to pay to get in. It’s not likely to happen like that; when they get out they go to small towns or fincas that are around.
So far, 25 years have passed since Escobar died, and the hippos have not killed anyone yet.
@@amelianywhere Yes, but when you introduce an invasive species it completely transforms/destroys the local ecosystem. Certain species are likely to be eradicated in that area because they can't compete with the hippos. It's a terrible idea to allow them to stay.
With a federal judge making it legit illegal to hunt them down, it's going to take a lot of dead kids to overturn that.
_How come we’re known for making things extinct? But fail to get rid of these hippos???_
Because hippos absorb bullets and charge like berserkers. They’re huge, and proliferate wildly.
Big Boy how ironic, meanwhile, people can kill elephants and rhinos like it’s nothing
Blacklion 667 people hunt them using specialised weapons. You can also kill the hippoes, but people won’t like it.
@@pinkmann8399 are you on drugs? Because im pretty sure if you shoot one they will be dead unless there bloody thanos 2.0
Wolfghty 123
Large animals, unless you get a nice clean shot into a vital area or eyes, will not stop them. Even if they eventually bleed out, unless you hit through the eyes instantly that hippo will keep charging, until it kills you. Then it might die.
Seems the hippos found great success in the "New World"
This was pretty good.... very entertainment!
If they ever have to come up with a new scientific name for American hippos, I vote for "Hippopotamus escobaris."
lmaooo
It will more then likely become its own sub species somewhere down the line. You really think they will find all of them in the tick South American jungle?
It would take so long to evolve into another species, nobody would remember Escobar by that time.
brilliant
YES
That scene form fantasia is hippo propaganda made by hippos against crocodiles
Tiny Dino Productions 😂👏🏻
Sounds familiar🇮🇱
This was made by the innocent hippo gang
Hippo propaganda is spreading like wildfire, we need to expose them for what they are, FAT HORNLESS WATER RHINOS
Really???
i wonder how the hippos would change over the years. i mean it would take a ton of years but i wonder how different they'll be from the ones in Africa
This was last year imagine how much hippos there are right now
So in conclusion,
There are now South America hippos
there is hippos is basically almost every country on earth, just visit a zoo.
@@jyde50 yeah in the ZOO
@@jyde50 Those are wild hippos.
@@pacoramon9468 yes and the ones in Colombia are now domesticated as well , they live in a controlled environment (escabor estate), no difference
kobra Didn’t you hear them say that some hippos have moved miles away from the original estate?
When you were once a famous drug lord but now you're known for hippos
My group made a presentation about this guy and trust me, the ecological effects are both weird and saddening. I just couldn't wrap my head how tf this guy was so rich - he brought new species to the environment.
"Been spending most of our lifes living in the hippos paradise" should be the new national anthem of colombia.
Vox giving me answers to questions I didn't even know I had!
Why do people not understand that saving this ONE animal could destroy hundreds if not thousands of other types of life?
But... but... they are cuuute. 😤
hippos are cute, maybe because their so fat, maybe deep down it reminds us humans of babies/kids who are a little fluffy around their faces, where everyone immediately thinks: ''awww cute kid!''
i truly think it triggers a feeling deep down in us, that's why we empathize more with hippos than with some endangered frogs, snakes, insects etc. who might be valuable for the wild life.
All I want for Christmas 🎄 🦛
Funniest thing he said "I have a group of hippos outside of their natural habitat what do I do?"
I'll be going to Colombia hopefully in December and I definitely intend to see the hippos!
I saw a hippopotamus eating a big mac in McDonald's yesterday here in the USA.
Cool... I guess that the hippo had broken in but how did the hippo get in??? Did anyone get hurt??
telldem1 you sure it wasn’t just a hippo eating an american???
Well, America has the highest population of hippopotamus in the world. Followed after a huge gap by Africa...
Lol. You’re a horrible, sad excuse of a human being!
telldem1 that's a feminist
*Me: Just build a fence*
*sees built fence*
*Me: No, not like that!* 🤦🏻♂️
They should get trump as consultant 🤣
@@general_pinochet agreed, they should've built the wall here
They probably don't have the funding to build anything substantial. Its the Colombian government after all, and none of the people in the country take the problem seriously.
they do just be chillin doe
omg i love the music
4 hippos refugees were seeking the Colombian dream for better future! If there is a sponsorship program, I would love to bring them to Norway
Are these American hippo's?
Its ColOmbia, lol
@@jeffreymarye9474 F*CKING SAVAGE
Don't bother with hippos. Just keep importing Muslims.
@@juanmanuelpena9033 they're pretty much chilling and eating all day, no predators. So yeah, I guess hippos have a Colombian dream, lol
now I gotta look up hippos eating crocodiles
I don't think they eat them, just kill them to get rid of them, like humans with wolves.
Lol they r pure vegetarian
zh84 wtf do humans have to do with wolves😂😂😂😂😂
the crocodiles in Colombia are in danger of extinction because of their skin, apart from that they do not live in the same part of the country where these hippos live.
Let me grab some popcorn and watch this ticking time bomb 🤣
Its kinda strange how pablo escobar is such a notorious figure in the history of the world yet and still he is some what still a legend .