Another event I missed entirely. Tuesday was Pygmy Hippo Day. Looking at an image of a pygmy hippo, it seems about the right size to provide lunch for the three little dire wolves, extinct for ...

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government is offering a RM10,000 reward to anyone with information that could help identify those behind the recent killings of Borneo pygmy elephants in Tawau.

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 ...

A spokesperson confirmed with USA TODAY that at least 40 to 50 hippos were found deceased at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reuters first reported the news.

Most recently, this included the curious behavior of a herd of hippos following the death of an old bull. The scene unfolds in Katavi: Africa’s Fallen Paradise, a new series being aired by PBS ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, which is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east ...

An orca attack on a pygmy blue whale is witnessed by researchers ... an internationally renowned marine life hotspot off the tiny town of Bremer Bay. "It was all over pretty quickly for such ...

He never imagined the zoo's newborn pygmy hippo would become an internet megastar within weeks. Cars started lining up outside the zoo well before it opened Thursday. Visitors traveled from near ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — The Metro Richmond Zoo is hosting painting classes at the end of the week featuring everyone's favorite baby pygmy hippo, Poppy. The classes are being held to ...

Haggis, the internet-famous pygmy hippo calf at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo, has been introduced to dad Otto for the first time. After some inquisitive sniffs ...

Believe it or not, the Metro Richmond Zoo’s precious Poppy was merely the last arrival in a personality-packed lineup of newborn pygmy hippos in the last year. Moo Deng is arguably the most famous ...