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Cocaine hippos (and the case against pets)

Today, Explained

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Noam Chomsky: One of my favorite things about my job is hearing directly from our audience about why they listen. He says Vox makes Unexplainable free and accessible to everyone. In April, we're aiming to add 1,500 contributors to celebrate Vox's ninth anniversary. You can go to Vox.com slash Give Today to help us reach our goal.

The descendants of Pablo Escobar’s pet hippopotami are wreaking havoc in Colombia. They can teach us non-druglords a thing or two about pet ownership.

This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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