Adorable three-month-old pygmy hippo, Petunia, and her mum, Iris, are making a big splash at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia. Conservationists say fewer than 2,500 mature pygmy hippos are left in ...
Her skin is always moist and her cheeks pink and peachy. She’s usually seen nibbling at her caretakers’ knees, running around her pen — belly rolls jiggling — or opening her mouth in an ...
The hippo calf, born on August 3 at the Cincinnati Zoo, is hitting his developmental milestones and winning hearts Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who ...
An adorable baby pygmy hippo at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, had its first swim accompanied by its mom after the water level was lowered for the little hippo’s swim debut ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new baby pygmy hippopotamus has been born at the Montgomery Zoo! The baby, a girl, was born Feb. 9 to mother Lola and father Nile. She has been named Anuket after the ...