In a bid to prevent others making money from Thailand's hugely popular baby pygmy hippo, Moo Deng, zoo bosses in charge of her have started the process of patenting the animal's name. Zoo director ...

Move over, Pesto and Moo Deng—a new swoon-worthy baby animal just hit the internet. Last week, Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo welcomed a baby pygmy hippopotamus named Haggis. The tiny calf was born October ...

A new pygmy hippo star has taken the internet by storm. A six-week-old pygmy hippo named Mars captured hearts worldwide when his mom gave him the universal "mom stare" after he refused to leave the ...

"She spent the whole day lumbering around," 'TODAY' show correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer said of the hippo's b-day plans Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has ...

A hungry hippo appears to have bitten off more than it could chew when it swallowed a 2-year-old boy alive—only to spit him back out again. The infant was playing in his house in Katwe Kabatoro Town ...

First things first: the two-year-old boy who was attacked by a hippopotamus in Uganda was saved and had a full recovery, police say. But they also say the hippo had the boy in its jaws — with the ...

The tot was rushed to a hospital for treatment in the nearby town of Bwera, Congo and the hippo ambled back into the lake, according to the report. A 2-year-old boy was swallowed by a rogue hippo in ...