Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they survive without any family at all? Female gazelles, like this Soemmerring’s gazelle, roam the grasslands and scrublands of the Horn of Africa in ...

As many as 60 percent of the hippos at Murchison have been poached during the pandemic, he estimates. But Tumwesigye, who is a National Geographic Explorer, says the number of deaths is still ...

Ah, the majestic hippopotamus. The herbivorous mammals weigh between one-and-a-half and four tons, and they can grow up to 14 feet long. Nicknamed "river horses" by ancient Greeks, the animals ...

in a project funded by the National Geographic Society. They compared human-made lakes where the hippos hang out to ones they don’t frequent, looking at everything from the area’s ecological ...

Moo Deng—a squishy, shiny, purple-pink pygmy hippo born this summer at a zoo in Thailand, and whose name means “bouncing pig”—has taken the internet by storm. And that might have folks ...

There’s a new meaning to hungry, hungry hippos: Scientists have documented ... about a year ago after a mother at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., ate several of her offspring.

Beyond Bat Cave, here’s the surprising, quirky history behind some of our other favorite animal-themed town names across the U.S. Hippo was once a slang term for a hypochondriac, and this town ...

First things first: the two-year-old boy who was attacked by a hippopotamus in Uganda was saved and had a full recovery, police say. But they also say the hippo had the boy in its jaws — with ...

Hippos cannot breathe underwater or float either, according to National Geographic. Due to hippos' dense bone structure and heavy bodies, hippos sink in water, according to BBC Earth. This makes ...

Common hippos make their habitats near water sources as they are amphibious mammals that spend “up to 16 hours per day in the water,” says National Geographic. Hippos do attack humans ...

Hippos can be very aggressive and are considered to be one of the most dangerous animals in sub-Saharan Africa. National Geographic estimates hippos kill around 500 people every year. The third ...