The 7-year-old female pygmy hippo arrived at John Ball Zoo in the summer of 2023 from the Toronto Zoo in Canada.

Penelope, one of the zoo’s pygmy hippos, is pregnant, the zoo announced in a Thursday social media post. It will be the pygmy ...

Its skin felt like a slimy piece of leather. With whiskers.

Property insurance company Hippo Holdings (HIPO) hosted its 2025 investor day on Thursday. Coming off the event, Hippo CEO and President Rick McCathron sits down with Julie Hyman to speak more ...

HOMOSASSA SPRINGS, Fla. – The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park is in mourning today following the peaceful passing of Lu, the ...

Mother hippo and her calf in water. Image by Gonzalo Gonzales on Unsplash. Size was another noteworthy characteristic of the Hippopotamus gorgops. Estimates suggest that individuals of this species ...

Hippopotamus environment. Image via Unsplash. When direct confrontations occur between crocodiles and hippos, the encounters typically follow predictable patterns based on size, numbers, and ...

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Even the king of the jungle can have a bad day when trying to cross a river guarded by an aggressive hippo. Three lions found out the hard way that ...

The pygmy hippopotamus, or Choeropsis liberiensis, is endangered, with about 2,500 left in the wild in its native West Africa. Captive breeding populations are small.

By the time Jona and Tony produced Moo Deng, an 11-pound blob about the size of a one-liter bottle of Coke, Mr. Atthapon said he knew exactly what kind of hippo action the world craved.

Hippos weigh between 3,000 and 10,000 pounds, making them the second largest animal on land. Despite this enormous size, however, hippos are herbivores and aren’t naturally aggressive. But they are ...

A grown pygmy hippopotamus can weigh between 400 to 600 pounds, while larger, fully-grown hippos can weigh up to 9,920 pounds and 3,000 pounds, depending if they’re male or female.