The new pygmy hippo at the Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin, northern Israel, on April 16, 2026 (Saguy Peretz) A female pygmy hippopotamus arrived on Wednesday at a zoo in northern Israel as part of an ...

Fiona the hippo is all grown up. The almost-5-year-old Nile hippopotamus, once a mini heartthrob, now has long, jutting tusks – consistent with a hippo her age. Zoo officials say the tusks will never ...

Months after a baby hippo was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, there's been some new developments at Hippo Cove.Officials with the Cincinnati Zoo posted to member Facebook pages saying hippos Fiona and ...

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has announced the gender of its four-week old hippopotamus. First-time Nile hippo father Biko smashed a watermelon with the insides dyed blue (with animal-safe food coloring) to ...

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo welcomed throngs of visitors Wednesday to wish one very special hippo, Omo, a happy first birthday. The 500-pound hippo seemed to enjoy what zoo officials described as a capacity ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — One of Colorado's cutest animals is growing up. Omo, a 21-month-old hippopotamus at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, will soon weigh more than 1,000 pounds. The Colorado Springs zoo ...

A rare and endangered pygmy hippo has been born in Athens' Attica Zoological Park which is amazing news because there are reported to be less than 2,500 of these animals in the world. Plus, this ...

Hanukkah may be months ago — in fact, it’s almost Purim — but a new baby hippo at the Tanganyika Wildlife Park outside Wichita, Kansas, was just named in honor of the holiday. Keepers dubbed the calf ...

A female pygmy hippopotamus arrived on Wednesday at a zoo in northern Israel as part of an international breeding and conservation program to save the species, which is endangered in the wild. Unlike ...