A safari guide has described how he was swallowed by a “monster hippo” that ripped off his arm off and “threw him around like a ragdoll.” Paul Templer was left with 39 “major” bite ...

She was the first Nile hippo set to be born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in 75 years. But Fiona almost didn’t make it. In the middle of the night, her mother, Bibi, went into labor ...

U.S. online bank Ally Financial (ALLY.N) has agreed to backstop home insurance policies provided by Hippo Holdings Inc , providing capital for the latter to generate more business, the companies ...

If a hippo is out of the water for too long, they can become dehydrated. Hippos don’t have true sweat glands, instead, they secrete “blood sweat,” which is a thick, red substance.

A hippo has attacked a 2-year-old boy in Uganda, swallowing half of his body before spitting him out, a statement from the Uganda Police Force said on Friday. The child was attacked on December 4 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A pygmy hippo named Jahari that killed an antelope in its enclosure at a Grand Rapids zoo on Tuesday has no history of aggressive behavior, the hippo’s former zoo said.

A two-year-old boy who was partially swallowed alive by a hippopotamus is recovering after a man stoned the animal to set the boy free, police in Africa said. According to the Uganda Police Force ...

A zoo official speculated that the hippo enclosure may not have been properly secured during the cleaning. 4 The hippo at Lucknow Zoo injured another cleaner, who had to be hospitalized (stock image).

Americans who have fallen in love with Moo Deng no longer need to travel to Thailand to see a baby pygmy hippo in person.. The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is now offering exclusive meet-and ...