Most people remember hippos from school as huge animals that spend much of their time in rivers. That simple image leaves out ...

As the Philadelphia Zoo explains, baby hippos weigh about 60-110 pounds at birth. By their first birthday, however, they ...

A team from The Wilderness Project has conducted a survey of hippos along Zambia’s Kafue River, one of the last strongholds of the species in Southern Africa. The expedition faced regular close ...

While the lion may be the king of the jungle in the wide open plains of Africa, the boss is a different story. Whether you ...

With only about 2,000 left in the wild, the pygmy hippo's future is increasingly shaped by digital attention ...

Roughly 50 hippopotamuses at Africa’s premier nature reserve died from anthrax poisoning, according to park officials. The naturally occurring form of anthrax took down the behemoths in the Democratic ...

Zookeepers spend a lot of time managing large animals safely, but stepping near two agitated hippos is an especially risky ...

Dozens of hippopotamuses died as a result of anthrax poisoning at the oldest national park in Africa. A spokesperson confirmed with USA TODAY that at least 40 to 50 hippos were found deceased at ...

Karen Paolillo (with the skull of a hippo named Bob) watches over a hippo pod in remote Zimbabwe, where tensions flare. Paul Raffaele Because Africa's scarcest natural resource is water, ...