Farmers in Gambia probably would not appreciate our Hippo Mojo website and business. They are too busy fending off real live hippos from their rice fields. But it’s not just hippos: bush pigs have also invaded and destroyed crops in at least 26 Gambian villages. This is devastating news for rice farmers, as most depend [...]

I found this story recently on BBC news: “Two rare bronze statues of hippos, commissioned by the late animal park owner John Aspinall, have been stolen from the grounds of a house in Kent. The statues, one of a full hippo and the other of the head of a hippo, are worth £15,000 and were [...]

What would compel a young hippo to leave his family and the pure, clean water of his birthland to travel to a stinky and bacteria-laden sewage plant and set up camp? A bout of father-son conflict and teenage angst – what else! That’s right, a young male hippo has claimed the swamps of the Cape [...]

A grumpy hippo wasn’t happy about a canoe passing through his waterway, so he rammed it from below, capsizing the homemade boat and dumping its occupants into the Niger River in Guinea. The three men, British scout leaders, escaped to dry land, abandoning their gear and the rest of their 2,500 mile journey. Oh, except [...]