It looks like production at the viral baby pygmy hippo factory is at an all-time high, with the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Va., announcing the birth of a healthy female hippo to parents Iris and ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — On Thursday, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo announced that their new 3-week old baby hippo is a boy. To celebrate, 18-year-old first-time Nile hippo dad, Biko, smashed a watermelon with ...

The unnamed female hippo calf, born December 6, is currently off-exhibit bonding with her mom Iris but is expected to make her public debut at the Metro Richmond Zoo soon Kelli Bender is the Pets ...

Hippos are highly social animals that live in groups of around 40 to 200 individuals. However close the group bonds may be, a female hippo will leave the herd when she is about to give birth. She ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A female pygmy hippo is still on her way to Grand Rapids’ John Ball Zoo for the zoo’s new habitat. The zoo’s new exhibit is already home to Jahari, the 8-year-old pygmy hippo, who ...

Do you want a hippopotamus for Christmas? Well, a zoo in Virginia released cute pictures of a new rare hippo just in time for the holidays. A baby pygmy hippopotamus — native to West Africa and with ...