Thanks to social media, people around the world have fallen in love with Fiona and Fritz at the Cincinnati Zoo and the adorable memes of baby Moo Deng. It’s easy to see why — baby hippos are ...

Federal officials are moving too slowly to protect the hippo from a wildlife trade that sends more hippo body parts to the United States than any other country in the world, a collaborative of animal ...

Wildlife advocates hope adding the hippo to the U.S. endangered species list will curb the illicit trade of their parts worldwide. (CN) — A coalition of wildlife advocacy organizations filed a ...

A hippopotamus charges into the waters of Lake Urema, in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Gorongosa’s hippos and other wildlife were devastated by civil war in the 1980s and '90s but have ...

Fiona the hippopotamus could play a major role in her species' rebound. The world-famous hippo, who turned 4 this year at the Cincinnati Zoo, has genetics that are pretty valuable, her zookeepers said ...

Fiona celebrates her sixth birthday Jan. 24. The premature hippo that almost didn't make it — but did, and captured the hearts of millions in the process — turns 6 years old Tuesday. Fiona will ...

WASHINGTON— Animal protection and conservation groups today sent a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to respond to a legal petition to protect the common ...

Move over, Moo Deng! A new adorable baby pygmy hippo has been born. On Monday, Nov. 4, the Edinburgh Zoo, run by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, announced the birth of a "tiny" female pygmy ...

A new pygmy hippo star has taken the internet by storm. A six-week-old pygmy hippo named Mars captured hearts worldwide when his mom gave him the universal "mom stare" after he refused to leave the ...

"Most people don't get a hippopotamus for Christmas at all, so we feel lucky to have received two over the years," the Metro Richmond Zoo shared Metro Richmond Zoo Two pygmy hippos in Virginia ...

COLCHESTER Zoo has welcomed an endangered male pygmy hippo from the Czech Republic. On December 3, Colchester Zoo welcomed the young male pygmy hippo Mikolas from Zoo Dvur Kralove in Czech Republic.