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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 have the most powerful bite of any land animal, but thankfully this one was just a bit sleepy, allowing me to illustrate its unique jaw structure. How did you achieve the shot?

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 ...

Here’s how it works. A rumor that hippopotamus milk is pink has been spreading on the internet for many years — and the idea gained traction when National Geographic posted about it on its ...