Besides elephants and rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses are the largest living land animal. Though they resemble giant pigs, their ...

Stamford native Jerry Zezima writes a humor column for Tribune News Service and is the author of seven books. His latest is ...

Last year, photographer Frankie Adamson spent three days returning to a hippo carcass on the edge of the Masai Mara reserve ...

The Poppy Cam lets hippo lovers worldwide watch Poppy’s daily ... Pygmy hippos are nocturnal and spend most of their days resting in the water. At night, they leave the water to feed on land.

Thanks to social media, people around the world have fallen in love with Fiona and Fritz at the Cincinnati Zoo and the ...

Reports of baby pygmy hippos in Thailand and in Richmond, Virginia, have garnered much attention for their respective zoos, ...

Somehow, despite this site's love for hippos of the pygmy variety, we've written very little about hippos of the extremely ...

Dozens of guests at the Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park gathered Friday morning to celebrate the park’s ...

Crossing the borders of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, land and water safaris follow the flow of the Zambezi to Lake ...

If you’re cold, they’re cold”... is the favorite saying of animal lovers during this time of year. The answer is much more ...

A new experience has opened up at the Metro Richmond Zoo that offers people the chance to meet Poppy the pygmy hippo, and ...

A major winter storm slammed the southern US Tuesday, blanketing parts of the Gulf Coast with record-breaking snowfall in a ...