My eyes scanned the shoreline and a chattering crowd of ox peckers alerted me to a bloat of sunbathing hippos. I remembered ...

The common hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, is one of the largest land animals on Earth. Adult hippos can weigh between 1.5 to 3 tons (that's like a small car!), and they can grow as long as ...

Moo Deng is no longer the only tiny hippo taking social media by storm after the Edinburgh Zoo announced Haggis, their very ...

In Uganda, home to the primate capital of the world, tourism is small-scale but growing. Chimp and gorilla treks are the big draws.

The forests and swamps of West Africa – particularly Liberia – are the native stomping ground of pygmy hippos, but there are believed to be only 2,500 remaining in the wild today, according to ...

It’s known as an acquired taste. Last week, though, Scotland produced a more appealing Haggis: a tiny, mud-colored pygmy ...

A new sneak peek at Mark H. Rapaport's directorial debut Hippo highlights the unrequited paternal relationship between Hippo and his step-sister.

In a video posted on TikTok by the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand’s viral baby hippo, Moo Deng, “predicted” a win for former president Donald Trump. The viral video shows ...

Companies like Seed, Kiala and Kourtney Kardashian’s Lemme all sell supplements that promise to remedy a bloated belly, while social media influencers hawk these and other products — or share ...

Just when you thought Moo Deng was the only celebrity baby pygmy hippopotamus taking the world by storm in 2024, along comes another one. A new baby pygmy hippo in Scotland is following in three-m ...

Meet Haggis! The tiny pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis) calf was born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo on October 30. The zoo’s adult pygmy hippos Otto and ...