Eleven people, including children and a baby, were missing after a hippopotamus capsized their boat in southwestern Ivory Coast, a government official said Saturday. The West African nation's minister ...

When Gayla Peevey's catchy Christmas wish for a hippopotamus came true in 1953, she didn't need to test the lyrical theory that a two-car garage would have plenty of room to house her "hippo hero." ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Staff at John Ball Zoo, with the help of two pygmy hippos, accomplished a historic achievement in animal conservation. The zoo, located in Grand Rapids, welcomed its first-ever ...

Moo Deng, born this summer, with her mother Jona at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Over the past several weeks, images of a clumsy, rosy-cheeked baby hippo have ...

In 1977 the 24-year-old greeting card artist Sandra Boynton published her first book, Hippos Go Berserk! A “wild counting story” about a hippo whose home is visited by first two hippos, then three, ...