There are two species of hippopotamus: the common river hippo (Hippopotamus amphibious) and the much smaller pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis). The hippo is one of the largest mammals on Earth. On ...
A stubborn baby hippo at a Kansas wildlife park met his match when his mother delivered a look every parent knows. At Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, KS, a 6-week-old pygmy hippo named Mars ...
It sounds like a fable or a fairy tale. The main characters are an orphaned baby hippopotamus and a 130-year-old giant tortoise. The hippo was rescued from a natural disaster of biblical proportions, ...
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Zoo members got to see Akobi, a 2-month-old baby pygmy hippo, splish-splash through his new enclosure this week under his mother’s watchful eye. “The fact that we got to this day ...
Baby hippos can be quite a handful. They are naturally rebellious and exhibit highly rambunctious behavior on a daily basis. The Thai baby pygmy hippo, Moo Deng, is one particularly sassy, famous ...
WILLIAMSON COUNTY -- Over the past 99 years, Hutto has slowly become synonymous with hippos, with an estimated 3,000 concrete hippos in the city. The hippos are not just a tourist attraction, they're ...
There appears to be something universal about the “mom stare.” A video of a funny interaction between a baby hippo and his mother has gone viral, racking up over 4.6 million likes as social media ...