According to the Tanganyika Wildlife Park, pygmy hippos can typically stay underwater for three to six minutes on a single ...

This newborn baby hippo is swimming straight into our hearts. Born Tuesday at the San Diego Zoo, the new calf can be seen learning to swim with his mom in a new video posted to the zoo's YouTube ...

Before Moo Deng became a viral sensation, baby Obi was making waves with his mom at the Melbourne Zoo in Australia. A YouTube video from Zoos Victoria shows the baby pygmy hippo taking its first swim ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- An adorable baby hippo born prematurely at the Cincinnati Zoo is growing so fast. Fiona looks tiny for a hippo but she's actually 73 pounds, up from the 29 pounds at her birth. She ...

This little guy is beating the heat in the cutest way possible! Check out Obi, a 3-week-old pygmy hippo calf, splashing around with his mom at the Melbourne Zoo in Australia. Obi has been learning to ...

There appears to be something universal about the “mom stare.” A video of a funny interaction between a baby hippo and his mother has gone viral, racking up over 4.6 million likes as social media ...

An adorable baby pygmy hippo at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, had its first swim accompanied by its mom after the water level was lowered for the little hippo’s swim debut, footage ...

Poppy the pygmy hippo calf recently got her first taste of swimming. The baby was born at Virginia's Metro Richmond Zoo, in early December. Poppy is part of a very special club. Native to west Africa, ...