The hippopotamus spends much of its day half-submerged in African rivers and lakes, looking placid, even comical, as it ...

Compared with Africa's other big animals, hippos have been relatively neglected in scientific research. Partly, this is because they're hard to study and dangerous to encounter. Hippos tend to live in ...

A new database of African hippo populations has revealed huge gaps in our knowledge of where the megaherbivores live and thrive, with populations fragmented and reliant on protected areas. A new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in South Africa who rescued a baby hippo and raised it died after the animal mauled him several years later. For more than a ...

The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year, thanks to viral videos that showed off her cute expressions and chirpy ...

Two hippos were filmed swimming in ocean waves along a remote stretch of coastline near the South Africa-Mozambique border, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Craig Manders shows his wife Lisa Manders in Zambia in mid-2024. Lisa Manders was killed in a hippopotamus ...

Video captured by a tourist on board a boat in northern Botswana showed the heart-pounding moment the vessel had to outrun a charging hippo.

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google A New Jersey mother of three was crushed to death by a hippopotamus on safari in Africa, according to a lawsuit by her ...