From a pygmy hippo to capybaras, Edinburgh Zoo's latest viral additions are helping to keep visitor numbers steady after its pandas returned ...

During the colder months, Poppy the pygmy hippo and her mother Iris stay in a climate-controlled indoor habitat, according to the Metro Richmond Zoo. But as spring approaches, March 28 marked the ...

Another event I missed entirely. Tuesday was Pygmy Hippo Day. Looking at an image of a pygmy hippo, it seems about the right size to provide lunch for the three little dire wolves, extinct for ...

They grow up so fast. And so big. Hippos, that is. Poppy, a pygmy hippo born into the Metro Richmond Zoo in December, has taken her first steps outside. She’s now viewable to the public at the ...

He never imagined the zoo's newborn pygmy hippo would become an internet megastar within weeks. Cars started lining up outside the zoo well before it opened Thursday. Visitors traveled from near ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — The Metro Richmond Zoo is hosting painting classes at the end of the week featuring everyone's favorite baby pygmy hippo, Poppy. The classes are being held to ...

Haggis' dad Otto has been living separately from the family, mimicking the natural behaviour of the species. Scotland’s ...

Haggis, the internet-famous pygmy hippo calf at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo, has been introduced to dad Otto for the first time.

Believe it or not, the Metro Richmond Zoo’s precious Poppy was merely the last arrival in a personality-packed lineup of newborn pygmy hippos in the last year. Moo Deng is arguably the most famous ...

Running into a hippo or bear in the dead of night is going to get you in serious trouble, so it’s best to stay safe inside your tent until dawn. AndyMagee/Istockphoto Don’t leave your tent open ...