It’s been an exciting life for Ursula Pickle, traveling coast to coast by flatbed trailer, but now the hippo just wants to relax where the waves caress North Carolina sand, her owner says. The move is ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia has called off the hunt to kill a drug lord's escaped hippo and will instead try to relocate the beast after its mate was shot dead by order of the government, sparking ...

Mars is one of roughly 450 pygmy hippos living in human care around the world, Neale said. Estimates gauge there are less than 2,500 left living in the wild, according to World Wildlife Fund. That's ...

Discover 9 fascinating fun facts about the elusive pygmy hippo, a small, shy and endangered forest dweller from West Africa.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Tanganyika Wildlife Park has welcomed a rare new arrival: a male pygmy hippo named Mars. Born one month ago, Mars is the fifth calf of Posie and Pluto, a breeding pair that ...

Owner Gerry Barrett talks about the cracks that have formed in the concrete hippopotamus statue he calls Ursula Pickle. Ursula has traveled from Chapel Hill to Chatham County to Oregon and back again.