Pygmy hippo Chico of the Heythrop Zoological Gardens in the UK has been off his feed lately. Zookeepers at the private zoo in Oxfordshire don’t know why Chico stopped eating, but they have learned how to get him to start again. A glove puppet of the hippo Gloria from the film Madagascar does the trick. [...]

Well, that headline got your attention, didn’t it? The media has been all over this story in recent months, making little Farasi so well known he was voted Swiss of the Year for 2008. Here’s the lowdown. A baby hippopotamus was born in the space-challenged Basel Zoo in Switzerland last November. Normally, the birth of [...]

Officials at the zoo in Sapucaia do Sol in Brazil threw a birthday bash for two young hippo twins who were turning a year old last October. Hippo twins Poliana and Policarpo are the first hippo twins ever to survive in a Brazilian zoo. Hippo twins are rare and usually fatal for one of them, [...]

Primrose the hippopotamus and her two daughters, Tulip and six-month-old Lotus, have made themselves at home in their new habitat at the Werribee Open Range Zoo. The new habitat, featuring a string of pools containing 5 million litres of water, is inspired by the Okavango Delta highland area in Botswana. The new development, built around [...]

The Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia welcomed a new baby hippo to the zoo family on Sunday, February 1, 2009. Named Mardiyah, the female hippopotamus weighed just 25 kilograms at birth. Her mother, Agustin, is helping her learn to walk and is getting her accustomed to her enclosure at the zoo. You can see a picture [...]

Here’s a new one: a zoo hippo who turned pink overnight! Here’s the article from OK! Magazine: Zoo keepers thought they were going hippo-potty when they came in one morning and found their star animal had turned pink overnight. Four-year-old hippopotamus Svetik has stumped vets in Zoo Park in Kaliningrad, Russia, who believe he has [...]

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; [...]