Pablo Escobar's four imported hippos have spawned Colombia's largest invasive population, disrupting local ecosystems. These ...

Few animals carry a gap between reputation and reality as wide as the hippopotamus. To many casual observers it reads as a ...

Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into Colombia decades ago, and the country has been paying for it ever since. A rescued ...

An endangered pygmy Hippopotamus gave birth a week ago at the Toronto Zoo, a calf appearing after 1.5 hours of labor—and he’s ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it’s widely known that Africa’s ...

THIS is the terrifying moment a huge hippo charges at a boat packed with tourists before lunging through the water in a ...

Colombia has around 200 so-called "cocaine hippos" living in the wild, all of which descended from a colony brought to South ...

A group of tourists made a narrow escape after a hippo charged their safari boat on a trip along a river in Botswana.

A lion versus hippo showdown may seem like an unlikely contest, but you would be surprised at just how many clips of this type of encounter can be found online. In this Instagram clip, the lions are ...

In Colombia, the hippos originally imported by Pablo Escobar have become an ecological menace. Initially introduced for his ...