A massive hippo calmly displaces five Nile crocodiles from a fresh kill in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Adult hippos dominate shared waterways and rarely back down from crocodiles. Both hippos and Nile ...

Researchers Baffled to See How Severe Drought Caused Crocs and Hippos to Engage in ‘Abnormal Behavior' Animals had their individual lifestyles in nature and rarely engaged in unusual forms of mingling ...

iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the sub-tropical north-eastern corner of South Africa has become famous for its birdlife, crocodiles and hippopotamuses that frolic in the ...

Hippos and crocs have lived side by side for millennia, but are they cozy bedfellows or arch-enemies? One is a hefty herbivore, the other is the most successful freshwater predator on the planet, so ...

Crocodiles have ruled rivers and wetlands for over 200 million years, but a handful of animals push back hard enough to win.

Extreme drought drives animals to behave abnormally, as crocodiles and hippos crowd a waterhole. It's extremely rare for crocodiles and hippos to mingle so closely, but extreme drought forces the ...

While the lion may be the king of the jungle in the wide open plains of Africa, the boss is a different story. Whether you are a fierce lion, aggressive crocodile, or stealthy cheetah, they all have ...

Small temporary ponds are numerous on the coastal plain surrounding Lake St. Lucia. These ponds support dense 'swarms' of highly active water beetles. Here researchers from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan ...