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 ...

Would the rhino’s horn be more powerful than the hippo’s long sharp teeth? Neither of them looks like they would be fast but ...

Scientists studied groups of hippos living in a nature reserve in Mozambique Wild hippos are noisy creatures, their calls travelling long distances across lakes and rivers. But until now the ...

Hippo body parts can still be traded under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), though all international sales require an export permit. It's been calculated that ...

Meet Haggis! The tiny pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis) calf was born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo on October 30.The zoo’s adult pygmy hippos Otto and ...

Edinburgh Zoo has celebrated the birth of a baby pygmy hippo named Haggis, to take your mind off the stressful US election ...