SAN DIEGO — A 45-year-old male river hippopotamus named Otis and nicknamed the "smiling hippo" has died at the San Diego Zoo. Otis had been under care for degenerative joint and spinal disease ...

Officials at a Southern California wildlife center celebrated a significant milestone on May 25, as a pygmy hippo housed at ...

SAN DIEGO -- Sad news from the San Diego Zoo: a 5-day-old hippo calf died Thursday. The hippo was found by zookeepers in the morning, with its mother, Funani, nearby. Hippo mothers are known to be ...

The San Diego Humane Society's Ramona Wildlife Center's pygmy hippo, Hannah Shirley, has surpassed the record of the oldest ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Zoo has a new hippopotamus — Lupe — that you can find at Hippo Trail. After Lupe’s companion at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A baby hippopotamus born at the San Diego Zoo this month has a name. The zoo says the river hippo calf will be called Amahle (pronounced ah-MAH'-shay), which means "beautiful one ...

Related: Pygmy hippo kills antelope intended for same enclosure at Grand Rapids zoo Chopper, born in 2016, started his life at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and lived at the San Diego Zoo Safari ...

Thailand's superstar baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng ... Association of Zoos and Aquarium (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP) Program, the zoo said. He was born at the San Diego Zoo in April 2020.

For example, sitatungas and pygmy hippos live together at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park, and at the Bioparc Valencia Zoo in Spain, a pygmy hippo lives with an Egyptian goose and a sitatunga.

A male sitatunga was killed Tuesday after he was attacked by a pygmy hippo in a new John ... Chopper was born at Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and spent time at San Diego Zoo Safari Park before ...