"Most people don't get a hippopotamus for Christmas at all, so we feel lucky to have received two over the years," the Metro Richmond Zoo shared Metro Richmond Zoo Two pygmy hippos in Virginia ...
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A zoo in Virginia welcomed a baby hippopotamus just in time for Christmas. The Richmond Metro Zoo announced on Dec. 24 the birth of a baby pygmy hippopotamus at ...
Watch out, Moo Deng. A new baby hippo has made a holiday entrance and she is soaking up the social media spotlight. The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia has announced the addition of a baby pygmy ...
A female pygmy hippopotamus delivered a healthy calf on December 9 at the Metro Richmond Zoo, Virginia. It is the third baby hippo born in the last 5 years on the zoo premises. The hippopotamus named ...
Her name is as Scottish as it gets, but little Haggis is a long way from her natural home. The forests and swamps of West Africa – particularly Liberia – are the native stomping ground of pygmy hippos ...
The Metro Richmond Zoo, the only place in Virginia to see hippos, said that pygmy hippos are an endangered West African species with less than 2,500 mature hippos remaining in the wild. "This ...
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Zoo has received a real treat for Halloween -- the birth of its first hippopotamus in 26 years. It was a bit of trick, too, because the mother was on birth control. The ...
The Albuquerque BioPark Zoo announced the death of a hippo on Sunday, just days after his baby was named. Moe, the 52-year-old Nile hippo, died on Sunday after experiencing a dental disease that ...