![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/320e2c10e5983ca3dcc584879174ed15395a52e3/0_149_4484_2690/master/4484.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=fb789a6f0b72c99af089dbe055d2e572)
The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?
In the steamy heat of the afternoon, Yamit Diaz Romero steered our motorised longboat around overhanging bamboo branches and islets in the Claro Cocorná Sur River in Colombia. Red howler monkeys swung from the cables of a footbridge and screeched in the …