A zoo threw a food party to celebrate the seventh month of a baby pygmy hippo in Thailand. The Khon Kaen Zoo in Khon Kaen province held the celebration on November 7 for its celebrity star Moo Duang - ...

"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 ...

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

The playful and pudgy mammal that went viral from its Thai zoo enclosure has a sad story to tell about her fellow hippos.

I love watching animal videos on YouTube through my TV or iPad. The two African animals no one messes with are the hippopotamus and the rhinoceros. The rhino, you can see why. They’re big ...

You don't have to go to Thailand to see pygmy hippos. Mama Cleo, papa Ino, and their son Ptolemy are an adorable family ...

The youngest son of Singapore's founding leader Lee Kuan Yew said he was granted asylum in Britain due to persecution at home, where a bitter family feud rages over a property dispute. Lee Hsien ...

The pygmy hippopotamus is listed as an endangered ... with small populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. The Khao Kheow zoo has made the decision to ban slingshots following the ...

The common hippopotamus is the third largest and heaviest land mammal after elephants and white rhinos found in Uganda’s national parks. Their killing for meat other than their teeth has particularly ...