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

There are just an estimated 2,000 that remain in the world, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast, due ...

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 ...