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Colombia’s invasive hippos, descended from animals once kept by Pablo Escobar, continue to raise difficult questions about ...

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Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. The pygmy hippopotamus was born on Dec. 9 and given an official birth ...

As a scientist whose research partly focuses on how giant land animals like rhinos, elephants, and giraffes move and how gravity uniquely constrains how athletic they can be on land, I've long ...

Watch as a man flees a charging hippo into a river in a viral TikTok video. The shocking encounter highlights the dangers of ...

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The hippopotamus is one of the most recognizable animals on the planet. With their tiny ears, enormous heads, and stocky bodies, they look unlike any other mammal on Earth. Native to sub-Saharan ...