Griff Jenkins on Pablo Escobar's... hippos?!

This is what we came to see.

The legacy of Pablo Escobar. It's almost nightfall. The hippos are beginning to get a lot more active. We know already one is going out of the water on the other side. We're getting closer to see if we can get a look while maintaining a safe distance. But this is when they come out to feed. They spent the day in the water docile. Now when they come out to eat and they'll eat all night long, they're also active.

Well over a half a dozen or more. There's a large, maybe a male, opening its jaws. We're navigating the paths that they come out of the lake to go and find food. They eat all night long. But when they come out of the water, it's when they're most dangerous. They are Colombia's most invasive species.

Three tons of pure muscle that can run 30 miles an hour and trample humans into a horrific, painful, gruesome death. They are, of course, the drug lord's hippos. This is Griff Jenkins, your humble DC correspondent, filling in for Brian Kilmeade on The Brian Kilmeade Show, 866-408-7669. A shameless plug, thanks to Eric and Allison letting me give a plug for a Fox Nation special that I did. You know, every so often, and people ask me all the time, they're like, you have the coolest job in America. And I said, I really do. I get to see a front row seat to history, interviewing Zelensky to the border. And every so often a story comes down the pike and you're like, man, that was the coolest story I ever did.

I love it. And that was, we had seen, the Fox Nation producers had seen, I believe it was a New York Times article that was talking about this invasive species crisis that Columbia, the country of South American country of Columbia has. And this is because in 1993, when Pablo Escobar was killed, the famous drug lord, he had a private zoo at his cocaine mansion ranch. He had zebras, tigers, giraffes, you name it. He had all these animals. And the government went in and got rid of all the animals and donated them to South American zoos and the like. And there were four hippos. And they were so violent, so aggressive, so difficult, so large. They said, eh, they'll die off.

Wrong. As one expert told me in Columbia in this special on Fox Nation, she says it is hippo heaven and that they have a hippo time bomb because four, just four turned into a dozen, turned into dozens, turned into a hundred, turned into a hundreds. People are getting hurt. And now they don't know what to do with them. And you can see them up close and personal. And of course, my terrible version of trying to be Steve Irwin in the bush. But you'll enjoy it. Nonetheless, they're scary beasts.