Thanks to social media, people around the world have fallen in love with Fiona and Fritz at the Cincinnati Zoo and the adorable memes of baby Moo Deng. It’s easy to see why — baby hippos are ...

A farmer in South Africa kept a pet hippo for six years before the animal turned on him and mauled him to death ...

Karen and Moe, the parents, welcomed their fourth calf on Tuesday morning. Both mom and baby are doing well and seem to be ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo's only hippopotamus is moving to a new home later this month, the zoo said in a release Thursday. The zoo's only hippo, Lupe, will be moving to her new home where she can ...

The San Francisco Zoo & Gardens on Friday announced the arrival of a pygmy hippopotamus, the first of its endangered species at the zoo since 2004. The male hippo named Udo, which translates to "peace ...

Cincinnati Zoo's hippo siblings are meeting face to face for the first time in their outdoor habitat.The zoo shared a video of four-week-old Fritz meeting big sister Fiona in their outdoor habitat ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — John Ball Zoo is getting ready to officially open a brand-new pygmy hippo exhibit. This comes less than three weeks after the zoo’s new pygmy hippo, Jahari, suddenly attacked and ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The results of an internal investigation at the John Ball Zoo are released almost four months after a pygmy hippo attacked and killed a sitatunga antelope. The attack happened in ...

Marius Els raised Humphrey the hippo 'like a son' and even built a huge lake on his farm for the animal to swim in - but the ...