"It was too cold for Fiona to celebrate her birthday outside today, so her care team brought the party to her!" the zoo announced in an Instagram post Cincinnati Zoo/Instagram Fiona the hippo turned 9 ...

Fiona gained fame in 2017 after she was born too small to stand or nurse, requiring human care around the clock Fiona the hippo was treated to a festive birthday celebration nearly a decade after ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Pygmy hippo Jahari broke news Thursday as he munched into a watermelon filled with blue jello. A couple hundred people watched anxiously from lookouts as the father of the zoo’s ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Tanganyika Wildlife Park has welcomed a rare new arrival: a male pygmy hippo named Mars. Born one month ago, Mars is the fifth calf of Posie and Pluto, a breeding pair that ...

A new shiny, rotund baby pygmy hippo has entered the chat, and animal lovers are already falling in love. A male pygmy hippopotamus – the same species as Thailand's famous Moo Deng – was born at ...

GODDARD, Kan. (KWCH) - Tanganyika Wildlife Park recently welcomed a new addition to its family, enhancing the pygmy hippopotamus population. A male pygmy hippopotamus calf was born on June 26, 2025, ...

A resident hippopotamus of Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida has died at the age of 65, park officials announced. Screengrab from Friends of Homosassa Springs Wildlife ...

A beloved and massive 65-year-old animal — the oldest of his kind in the Americas — living out his days at a Florida wildlife park has died. Lu the African hippopotamus was known for his “calm ...