{"id":77188,"date":"2026-04-29T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/29\/indian-billionaire-son-anant-ambani-offers-house-pablo-escobar-hippos"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:00:48","slug":"indian-billionaires-son-offers-to-house-pablo-escobars-hippos-at-his-private-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77188","title":{"rendered":"Indian billionaire\u2019s son offers to house Pablo Escobar\u2019s hippos at his private zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anant Ambani revives offer to transport 80 animals, all descendants of Colombian drug kingpin\u2019s pets, to India<\/p>\n<p>It remains one of the strangest conundrums in modern zoological history \u2013 what to do with the descendants of Pablo Escobar\u2019s hippos?<\/p>\n<p>The animals \u2013 herbivores native to sub-Saharan Africa \u2013 were originally imported into Colombia by the drug kingpin for his own entertainment. But the beasts and their offspring were left to roam free after his death in 1993.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/29\/indian-billionaire-son-anant-ambani-offers-house-pablo-escobar-hippos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anant Ambani revives offer to transport 80 animals, all descendants of Colombian drug kingpin\u2019s pets, to IndiaIt remains one of the strangest conundrums in modern zoological history \u2013 what to do with the descendants of Pablo Escobar\u2019s hippos?The animal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,265,1652,62,61,42,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-animals","category-colombia","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-zoos"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77189,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77188\/revisions\/77189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}