Few animals look as calm and harmless as a hippo lounging in the water, but appearances can be deceiving. Dangerously so, in ...

Disney's Animal Kingdom's mama hippo, Tuma, gave birth to a Nile hippopotamus on Saturday There’s a new addition to Disney’s Animal Kingdom! The park announced the happy news that mama hippo, Tuma, ...

Hippos are hardly the most photogenic animal. It might be the massive teeth, the soggy, grey skin or maybe just the overall look that leaves us feeling like they might secretly want to eat us. But ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- There's a new pygmy hippo in town! The Houston Zoo announced Tuesday that it has welcomed a 450-pound male pygmy hippopotamus named Silas. The 2-and-a-half-year-old hippo ...

A cute-as-a-button pygmy hippo is in the spotlight, a month after the tot was born at Australia's Taronga Zoo. Named "Kambiri" (Nigerian for "allow me to join this family"), the female infant was born ...

It's the first hippo born at the park in 13 years. — -- There's a new Nile hippopotamus on the block. Disney’s Animal Kingdom announced the arrival of a new baby hippo, born to mom Tuma on Jan.

A hippopotamus left no room for his message to get lost in translation when he ferociously defended his territory from an African elephant. "There is an island on the middle of the Chobe River to ...

Gertrude the hippo, the oldest animal at the Woodland Park Zoo, was euthanized Wednesday because of age-related osteoarthritis. Despite medication, the 47-year-old female hippo experienced intense ...

A new experience at the Cincinnati Zoo is letting guests get up close to their favorite animals before the zoo even opens.Breakfast with the Animals will be offered twice a month through August, where ...