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 ...

Is anything cuter than a baby hippo? Fans of Thailand’s Khoa Kheow Open Zoo don’t think so. The zoo recently held a four-day festival dedicated to their most famous resident: a pygmy hippo named Moo ...

There are two species of hippopotamus: the common river hippo (Hippopotamus amphibious) and the much smaller pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis). The hippo is one of the largest mammals on Earth. On ...

These cute hippo coloring pages are free to print and enjoy. Print them for your family!

Analysis shows hippos get all four feet off the ground simultaneously for up to 15% of the time when running at full speed For a brief moment lasting 0.3 seconds per stride, some hippos 'fly' by ...

It's World Hippo Day, and the Cincinnati Zoo is celebrating by sharing fun facts about the hippo bloat.Famous hippo resident Fiona recently celebrated her 7th birthday.Born six weeks premature on Jan.

Hippos are among the most iconic animals in Africa and hold the distinction of being the third-largest land mammal living on Earth today after elephants and white rhinos. On top of their huge size, ...

HOUSTON — Move over, Moo Deng, there's a new pygmy hippo in town. The Houston Zoo welcomed Akobi recently and he's been getting acquainted with the new home he shares with the bongos. Akobi is a ...

Hippopotamus aren't the first thing that come to mind when considering epidemiology and disease ecology. And yet these amphibious megafauna offered ecologists a window into the progression of an ...