When Kenya Wildlife Service personnel shot this stray hippo in a thicket in Ol Kalou, Nyandarua County, residents – seeing for dinner – quickly shared out the meat on a first-come-first-served basis.

In 1910, the United States faced a national meat shortage — and politicians came up with a shocking solution: import hippos from Africa and farm them in the Louisiana swamps. This short documentary ...

A new aerial survey shows that the hippo population in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo will soon be extinct due to rampant poaching for hippo teeth and meat. Gland, ...

A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos are ...