I have no idea who Zay Harding is but I found this video on YouTube and wanted to share it with you. At least Zay has the sense not to go into the water with the hippos. Can’t say the same for the other two dudes. My only question is, what happens when they run [...]

Pygmy hippos are just so darn cute! Check out this footage of someone setting a camera trap in Liberia to prove that hippos still live there. And then stay around until the end to see a captive pygmy hippo getting a tummy rub.

Lynn McCarty really misses her giant pink hippo Henrietta. No, not a real hippo, but a 300-pound fiberglass one last seen speeding away from her El Dorado Hills, California, home in the bed of a white Ford truck. “It’s not fair, it’s not right, they need to bring her back,” she told KOVR-TV in Sacramento, [...]

DAH DAH DAAAAHHHHHH. (Imagine scary, dramatic organ music here.) Don’t get me wrong, I really dig BBC’s documentaries. I just think they tend to be a bit melodramatic sometimes. Like in this hippo video:

Okay, so this is a little disturbing to me: a crocodile gets stuck in the middle of a pack of hippos and the hippos get pissed off and kill him. Not that I’m a crocodile hugger or anything but I just don’t like to see wild animals embracing the dark side of the wild. Yes, [...]

From The New Vision website in Uganda: “A herd of hippos from Lake Kakyera in Rakai district has invaded three villages in Kakyera Sub County Rakai district destroying local people’s gardens valued in millions of shillings. Lake Kakyera is situated in Lake Mburo National Park. John Magara, the district councilor representing Kakyera Sub County identifies [...]

Recently a hippo bolted from Nairobi National Park in Kenya and took off for city life. But the citizens called Kenya Wildlife Services sent him packing back to his watery home. Drugging a hippo can be difficult as they are sensitive to the drug used to knock them out, sometimes resulting in death. In this [...]

Okay, now I’m upset. I thought hippos were herbivores!!! The hippo in this video really seems to be eating some of that buffalo – yikes! I guess if you’re hungry enough, you’ll try anything.

I found this video fascinating, except for the part about the tail being bitten off – that was just icky.