"This is the first such kind of incident where a hippo strayed out of the Lake Edward and attacked a young child," the Uganda Police Force said in a statement Melissa Montoya is an associate ...

Park guards noticed there was a problem when the dead animals started to appear about five days ago along the river, which forms Congo’s border with Uganda and runs through an area under the ...

And in 2004, anthrax was responsible for killing around 300 hippos in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. These latest deaths are an especially heavy toll for the local hippo population.

The hippopotamuses were found floating in a river south of Lake Edward, which separates the DRC from Uganda, park director ... the park was home to the largest hippo population in the world ...

Park guards noticed there was a problem when the dead animals started to appear about five days ago along the river, which forms Congo's border with Uganda and runs through an area under the ...

which forms Congo's border with Uganda and runs through an area under the control of rebel fighters. A two-month-old female pygmy hippo named ''Moo Deng'' who has recently become a viral internet ...