A Kent zoo is celebrating the arrival of its new resident, Haggis the pygmy hippopotamus, who has a worldwide fanbase. The ...

Federal officials are moving too slowly to protect the hippo from a wildlife trade that sends more hippo body parts to the United States than any other country in the world, a collaborative of animal ...

A video circulating over WhatsApp shows a family of Hippos strolling through a busy street in St Lucia, northern ...

When Gina Serna set out to control Pablo Escobar’s wild hippos, she didn’t count on the flood of tears. “I was crying a lot,” said Serna, a Colombian veterinarian who is spearheading an ambitious ...

A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos are ...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY - Two hippopotamus play in a lake at the Napoles ranch thematic park in Puerto Triunfo municipality, Antioquia department, Colombia on June 21, 2009. The Napoles ranch, which has ...

A two-year-old boy who was partially swallowed alive by a hippopotamus is recovering after a man stoned the animal to set the boy free, police in Africa said. According to the Uganda Police Force, the ...

Staff at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo are saying a fond farewell to one of its most famous ...