Archive for November, 2008

They’re back! Everyone’s favorite castaways are off on another adventure, this time to Africa. Gloria the hippo, Melman the giraffe, Alex the lion, and Marty the zebra, accompanied by various and sundry creatures, crash land their plane on the vast plains of Africa where they meet wild versions of themselves.

A pod of two dozen carved gemstone hippos are now making their home at Hippo Mojo. They come in two sizes, large and small, and measure about 2 1/4″ and 1 1/2″ respectively. All the colors of the rainbow are represented in this herd, along with spots, stripes, and sparkles. We hope you’ll buy one [...]

Once upon a time there was a hippo called Alfredito who had a tooth ache. Luckily for Alfredito, he lived in a zoo and one day the zoo’s vet noticed Alfredito’s dull, quiet behavior and discovered the hippo’s infected tusk. But the Central American vet did not know how to sedate the three-thousand pound animal; [...]

We are pleased to announce the arrival of hippo book charms, ornaments, pin cards, and magnet frames from Pilgrim Imports, a Wisconsin wholesale importer. Two of the items are shown below and the rest appear on our shopping site. Pilgrim Imports is committed to building and supporting communities of craftsmen while purchasing items at a [...]

Okay, so hippos don’t make the best pets. They are big. They are aggressive. They are hungry. Only a few hippos have successfully made the transition from wild, dangerous animal to approachable zoo resident. But what about pygmy hippos? They are small and cute and seem more like little pigs than their larger cousins. Just [...]