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.

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Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

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A series of heartwarming photos taken at Delhi Zoo show a very new (just two day old) hippo calf, the first born at the zoo ...

A Ramona Wildlife Center pygmy hippo that was rescued more than two decades ago broke a world record this weekend by becoming ...

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Adam Jacot de Boinod was a researcher for the first BBC series QI, compered by Stephen Fry, and is an author of three books ...