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

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 ...

Lions and hippos don’t regularly encounter ... These grazing sessions can last for five to six hours, and a single hippo can eat 55 to 88 pounds of food during that time! Hippos use their ...