Hippos are usually found in Africa's lakes, rivers and swamps, but there is a population of the world's third-largest mammal ...

The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo has announced that longtime resident Patti, a river hippopotamus, was humanely euthanized on Sunday, ...

Did you know the word "hippopotamus" comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse"?But don't let that fool you; this big, lumbering mammal is anything but a horse. In fact, it's one of the most ...

Visitors can sing "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" with the original singer, Gayla Peevey. She was born in Oklahoma City ...

The Houston Zoo announced the arrival of Akobi, a 477-pound male pygmy hippopotamus from San Francisco, who comes to Houston ...

Moo Deng is a pygmy hippo, a species native to the forests of west Africa. Unlike their bigger and significantly scarier cousins (regular hippos), the pygmys are secretive creatures, who like to ...