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 ...

Margrit Harris witnessed this firsthand when she captured a video of a hippo trying to play with an unobliging crocodile in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. The video shows a young hippo chasing ...

To call hippos “charming” may seem a bit of a ... spatiotemporal settings of hippopotamid origin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (26), 11871-11876 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

From pygmy hippos to pangolins, these parents help their offspring get the best start in life. A juvenile critically endangered and federally endangered Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus ...