It was after midnight in Quito when Stella de la Torre came for me, waiting under a streetlamp next to the black minivan that ...

Poppy, a pygmy hippo, was born at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia on Dec. 9. Her name was selected by online voters.

Most people don’t get a hippopotamus for Christmas at all, so we feel lucky to have received two over the years,” zoo ...

Meet the Metro Richmond Zoo’s newest superstar. On Dec. 9, the zoo welcomed a baby pygmy hippo. At just three weeks old, she ...

Pygmies are native to West Africa, and their average life expectancy is 27 years. Greta Cross is a national trending reporter ...

Hippos are usually a naturally polygamous species, but it’s been slim pickings for the pygmies over the last few decades. When the hippo was declared endangered in 2015, there were only about ...