While lions are often the stars of the African savanna, hippos are also impressive heavyweight contenders. When these two ...

The one hippo makes it his mission to get these lions out of the water. Not to necessarily eat or even injure the lion severely. Merely to make it clear that they do not welcome uninvited guests ...

When a hippo came rushing in to fight the Lubyelubye lion pride on the Lower Sabie riverbed in the Kruger National Park, five lionesses saw an opportunity to hunt and challenged it back.

(Also see “‘Unusual’ Pictures: Lions vs. Hippo.”) David Pfennig, a biologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, said that there are certain advantages to eating a member ...