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Colombia's 'Cocaine Hippos' Are Not Persons Under US Law

By Phil Goldberg (November 10, 2021, 6:46 PM EST) -- File this story under: Don't believe everything you see on the internet. Over the past few weeks, a press release from the Animal Legal Defense Fund seems to have led news organizations from CBS News to the Huffington Post to report that Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" are the first animals ever to be recognized as legal persons by U.S. courts....

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