Lu the hippopotamus died June 8, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Lu had been at Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park since 1964, and was 65 years old.

The hippopotamus, or hippo, well-known for their extremely large stature, can often be found grazing the grasslands in Africa on cool nights. Hippos primarily live in lakes, rivers and swamps in ...

Hippos, which spend up to 16 hours a day in water, don’t swim. They either walk underwater or bounce and propel themselves off the riverbed with their webbed toes.

TRANSCRIPT Narrator: Across Africa, hippos are ranked among the most dangerous of animals. They can be unpredictable, and eager for battle. They don't often back down from a fight.

Forrest Galante has bad luck with hippos. He was nearly killed twice by the animals while growing up as a kid in Zimbabwe. So it’s fair to say Galante was treading cautiously this winter as he ...

Across their range, hippos may be declining at 6% to 8% a year, the scientists said. Estimates of hippo populations across Africa have varied wildlife, from 115,000 to 192,000 over the past decade.

A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf of the endangered species to be born at the zoo in the last five years, officials said.

The baby hippo, a girl who has not yet been named, was born to parents Iris and Corwin at Metro Richmond Zoo on Dec. 9. She's their third female calf in under five years.

The sculpture will depict OKC native Gayla Peevey, who sang the 1953 holiday hit " I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," as a 10-year-old with the zoo’s first Nile hippo, Mathilda, ...

A Pygmy Hippo Is Stealing Hearts (and Biting Zookeepers) Moo Deng, whose name translates to “bouncy pork,” has united the internet while following a familiar path to stardom.

Viral baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng may get her own patent after skyrocketing to TikTok fame over the last few weeks at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand, according to a zookeeper.

A new study out of the United Kingdom shows that hippos can fly. Well, only if you define flying as getting all four hooves off the ground for 0.3 seconds. In one of the first studies of the ...