According to the Tanganyika Wildlife Park, pygmy hippos can typically stay underwater for three to six minutes on a single breath. While they are underwater, their eyes, ears, and nostrils close to ...

Inquiring minds want to know what it’s like being a baby pygmy hippo—and the staff at Tanganyika Wildlife Park didn’t disappoint! They’ve spent the last several months sharing daily updates on Mars, ...

Inquiring minds want to know what it’s like being a baby pygmy hippo—and the staff at Tanganyika Wildlife Park didn’t disappoint! They’ve spent the last several months sharing daily updates on Mars, ...

Is anything cuter than a baby hippo? Fans of Thailand’s Khoa Kheow Open Zoo don’t think so. The zoo recently held a four-day festival dedicated to their most famous resident: a pygmy hippo named Moo ...

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 ...

The 5-month-old calf has become an Internet star with more than two million views on YouTube. The little guy's name is Adhama, which means "honor" in Swahili. He spends most of his days gracefully ...

"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 ...