Recently, they took a DNA test and found out the mammal is actually a female ... they took the hippo in, Mexico zoo officials and transfer documents all indicated it was a male, the Tennoji ...

A spokeswoman for the Osaka Tennoji Zoo told AFP on Tuesday that typical male hippo behaviour that Gen-chan was not displaying included making courtship calls to female hippos, or scattering ...

Iris and a male hippo named Corwin have had three female offspring together in the past four and a half years, including the newborn hippo. The baby hippo is the second calf born just before the ...

An average, full-grown male can reach up to 7,000 pounds; that's roughly the weight of a UPS truck! A female will generally weigh in at about 3,000 pounds. A full-grown pygmy hippo, on the other ...

A grown pygmy hippopotamus can weigh between 400 to 600 pounds, while larger, fully-grown hippos can weigh up to 9,920 pounds and 3,000 pounds, depending if they’re male or female. The zoo ...

A Virginia zoo got a hippopotamus for Christmas because only a hippopotamus would do. A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf ...

Born in December, the hippo was named Mikolas and joined two female and one male pygmy hippos in the Dvur Kralove Zoo about 75 miles east of Prague, said Helena Hubackova, a spokeswoman for the park.

Akobi is a four-and-a-half-year-old, 477-pound male pygmy hippopotamus moved to Houston from San Francisco as part of a breeding program. His name means "first-born" in Yoruba. The Houston Zoo ...