Moo Deng is a pygmy hippo, a species native to the forests of west Africa. Unlike their bigger and significantly scarier ...

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo announced their own tiny pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was born Oct. 30 ...

Moo Deng is the two-month-old pygmy hippo who flicks her ears in joy and ... a long-term survey in a national park in Ivory Coast found 12,000 pygmy hippos in 1982; 5,000 in 1997 and 2,000 in ...

Along with the 11 sealed burials, the archaeologists also found jewelry, necklaces, bracelets, armlets, two copper mirrors with ivory handles ... beads surrounding a hippo head amulet.

The pygmy hippopotamus is listed as an endangered species on the ... with small populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. The unhealthiest fast-food sandwich in America isn't a Big Mac, ...

"It is great to have our own little ambassador right here," said the hoofstock team leader at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland.

Moo Deng is the two-month-old pygmy hippo who flicks her ears in joy and likes splashing ... Their decline has been drastic: a long-term survey in a national park in Ivory Coast found 12,000 pygmy ...

Liberia and the Ivory Coast, and grow up to around 39 inches at the shoulder, according to the Hippo Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are more ...

Guinea and the Ivory Coast, due to habitat loss and being hunted for bushmeat, according to the Pygmy Hippo Foundation. Haggis’ birth comes as the world remains obsessed over the birth of ...

Did you know the word "hippopotamus" comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse"? But don't let that fool you; this big, lumbering mammal is anything but a horse. In fact, it's one of the most ...