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The river runs north to Lake Edward, where locals spotted more corpses. “There are more than 25 hippopotamus bodies floating in the waters of the lake, from Kagezi to Nyakakoma,” Thomas ...

They grow up so fast. And so big. Hippos, that is. Poppy, a pygmy hippo born into the Metro Richmond Zoo in December, has taken her first steps outside. She’s now viewable to the public at the ...

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One individual that fell was an old male hippo, his bloated body floating in the water surrounded by the rest of his herd. What unfolded next is something we’ve seen before in other animals ...

A 6-year-old, two-toed sloth unexpectedly went into labor in her zoo exhibit in front of zoo goers on Wednesday, April 2 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Moo Deng is arguably the most famous baby hippo of 2024 (or perhaps the most famous pygmy hippo of all time), she wasn’t the first new arrival to the species in 2024! Seven pint-sized hippopotami were ...