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Aviation Pro

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Wed Apr 29, 2026, 09:41 AM Wednesday

This is what fucking billionaires do

Instead of using their enormous, obscene wealth to improve the lives of people, they offer to save a non-native invasive species that was brought into a country by another vile billionaire.

Link.

Indian billionaire heir offers to save 80 of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ from Colombian cull

Indian magnate Anant Ambani, son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has offered to take in at his wildlife sanctuary in India, 80 “cocaine hippos” currently living in Colombia, where the government is planning to cull them.

The hippos are descended from animals introduced to the country in the 1980s by Pablo Escobar, one of Colombia’s top drug lords, who sought to have one of the largest private zoos in Latin America with a wide variety of animals.
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This is what fucking billionaires do (Original Post) Aviation Pro Wednesday OP
this is not the hippos' fault and 'm glad they have a new home rampartd Wednesday #1
Nothing wrong with this NoRethugFriends Wednesday #2
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