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 ...

Pigs may not fly, but hippopotamuses do — at least momentarily. When hippos get moving, all four feet leave the ground for about 15% of their stride cycles, researchers at Britain's Royal ...

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 ...

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 ...