The San Diego Zoo has welcomed a new hippopotamus named Lupe, who was recently relocated from the Woodland Park Zoo in ...

Pygmy hippos are continually dwindling because of persistent habitat loss and human poaching; they're considered a better source of "bushmeat" (meat from wild animals) than other hippo species because ...

Fans of baby hippo star Moo Deng formed long queues of traffic as they visited the zoo. Footage shows thousands of cars filling roads around the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand, on October ...

Pygmy hippos are the world's smallest species of ... loss of habitat for this and other endangered species. Getty Images When Moo Deng is fully grown, she may weigh up to 600 pounds (272kg ...

The truth is that Moo Deng is perceived by many to be a very cute animal, which is fine. The internet has plenty of opt-outs ...

An obsessed fan of famous baby hippo Moo Deng sparked panic when she climbed into a zoo enclosure to retrieve her dropped her ...

Residents of a town in north-western Nigeria are celebrating after a rare but feared hippo - along with its calf - was killed ...

A ZOO has been accused of fattening up animals to turn them into viral stars like Moo Deng. Pictures of a tubby leopard, an ...

Moo Deng, which literally means "bouncy pork" in Thai, is a type of meatball. The name was chosen by fans via a poll on ...

The rising internet sensation, Moo Deng, is a female pygmy hippo at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chon Buri, Thailand.

A fringe cryptocurrency inspired by a viral hippo has shot up in price by nearly a million per cent after the token went ...

Photos of the dead animal have been widely shared ... which is on the United Nations' cultural heritage list. Hippos are the third-largest land mammal and their teeth can reach up to 50.8cm ...