April 15 (UPI) --Residents in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, had a brush with the wild when a hippopotamus escaped from a nature reserve and wandered through the streets. Grassy Park residents ...

Moo Deng is making a comeback after a photo of a baby hippo "wearing fishnets" has the internet talking about the most beloved pygmy hippopotamus again. The photo, shared by @hopes_revenge, went viral ...

A two-year-old boy who was partially swallowed alive by a hippopotamus is recovering after a man stoned the animal to set the boy free, police in Africa said. According to the Uganda Police Force, the ...

A 2-year-old boy from Uganda is lucky to be alive after a rogue hippopotamus swallowed him whole and spit him back out. According to a police report from the Uganda Police Force, Iga Paul was playing ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A “HippoPalooza” event celebrating the ribbon cutting of John Ball Zoo’s new pygmy hippo exhibit has been pushed back following a fatal attack at the zoo last week. The new pygmy ...

Hippo sisters Zambezi and Kasai will soon be leaving Dickerson Park Zoo and returning to their home at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Zoo spokesperson Joey Powell said she ...

An elephant in Kruger National Park went on the rampage at a watering hole, trumpeting and chasing hippos and terrorizing a baby hippo in a “one-of-a-kind interaction” at the famous park in South ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s here! The John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, says Penelope, a pygmy hippo, birthed a calf on Wednesday. The unnamed baby weighs 11 pounds and is the first pygmy ...