Because hippos live in fresh water, they are “in the cross hairs of conflict,” says biologist Rebecca Lewison, head of the World Conservation Union’s hippo research group. “Fresh water is ...

Along the Boteti River in Botswana, a baby hippo showed several crocodiles who was boss on June 11. The little hippo showed ...

A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu said. "After it was swept and ...

Hippo poop is piling up in Tanzania’s freshwater fisheries—which is bad news for biodiversity, and deleterious for the dinner plate. Jason G. Goldman reports.

She was the first Nile hippo set to be born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in 75 years. But Fiona almost didn’t make it. In the middle of the night, her mother, Bibi, went into labor ...

Americans who have fallen in love with Moo Deng no longer need to travel to Thailand to see a baby pygmy hippo in person. Poppy was born on Dec. 9, 2024, to the Metro Richmond Zoo's resident pygmy ...

Fiona and her mother, Bibi, were introduced to Tucker the hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo nearly four years after Fiona's dad, Henry, died in 2017 ...