Since spotting a hippopotamus is difficult and dangerous, we’re here to tell you some incredible facts about them that will ...

Although hippos once roamed all across Africa, habitat loss has narrowed most populations down to East Africa today. Being semi-aquatic, hippos are built for life in the water. Their ears ...

The Mara River makes the perfect home for hippos. They graze the surrounding reed beds and grassland and swim in the bends and pools of deep water. The river supports around 2,000 of these semi ...

Fritz has reached a new milestone! On Monday, the Cincinnati Zoo's 2-week-old baby hippo explored his outdoor habitat with his mom, Bibi, for the first time, the Ohio facility shared in a release.

She’s now viewable to the public at the zoo’s Hippo Haven habitat. The 4-month-old hippo is already 80 pounds, zookeepers said. By the time she’s 5 months old, she’s expected to be about ...

MOSELEY — Poppy the popular pygmy hippo made her debut in the outdoor Hippo Haven habitat at Metro Richmond Zoo. She and her mom Iris have been living in a climate-controlled indoor habitat ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- An endangered and secretive animal rarely seen in the wild has been caught on camera in West Africa. There are thought to be less than 3,000 pygmy hippos left in the wild ...

Hippos are threatened by habitat loss and degradation, drought, poaching and the international demand for hippo parts, including teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat. Adam Peyman, wildlife programs ...

Hippos are in a precarious position in the wild, with population levels declining as much as 20% between 1996 and 2008, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Habitat loss ...