Wildlife advocates hope adding the hippo to the U.S. endangered species list will curb the illicit trade of their parts worldwide. (CN) — A coalition of wildlife advocacy organizations filed a ...

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 little boy was rescued from the jaws of a hungry hippopotamus by a witness who raced to help. The Uganda Police Force said in a news release that the hippo grabbed the 2-year-old boy "from the head ...

A Zimbabwean woman living among monkeys and hippos turned heads after sharing a video feeding wild animals at her door and ...

The Rondevlei Nature Reserve in Cape Town is mourning the loss of Brutus, the original male hippopotamus reintroduced to the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A male sitatunga was killed Tuesday after he was attacked by a pygmy hippo in a new John Ball Zoo exhibit, officials announced. The sitatunga, named Chopper, was introduced to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A deadly attack between a pygmy hippo and a sitatunga at John Ball Zoo was likely due to "individual animal behavior," according to an internal review by John Ball Zoo Friday.

SAN DIEGO — A 45-year-old male river hippopotamus named Otis and nicknamed the “smiling hippo” has died at the San Diego Zoo. Otis had been under care for degenerative joint and spinal disease and a ...