"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three others survived the incident, which took place on Sept. 5 Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest.She joins having written for ...

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 ...