Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inquiring minds want to know what it’s like being a baby pygmy hippo—and the staff at Tanganyika Wildlife Park didn’t disappoint!

Footage from John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, shows Hugo, a baby pygmy hippo born Sept. 3, 2025, sleepily yawning.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Staff at John Ball Zoo, with the help of two pygmy hippos, accomplished a historic achievement in animal conservation. The zoo, located in Grand Rapids, welcomed its first-ever ...

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has announced the gender of its four-week old hippopotamus. First-time Nile hippo father Biko smashed a watermelon with the insides dyed blue (with animal-safe food coloring) to ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCMH) — The Cincinnati Zoo has posted a new video of a hippopotamus calf born Wednesday to Bibi, mother of famed hippo Fiona. The clip, uploaded to Twitter and captioned, “Looks like ...

Is anything cuter than a baby hippo? Fans of Thailand’s Khoa Kheow Open Zoo don’t think so. The zoo recently held a four-day festival dedicated to their most famous resident: a pygmy hippo named Moo ...

Inquiring minds want to know what it’s like being a baby pygmy hippo—and the staff at Tanganyika Wildlife Park didn’t disappoint! They’ve spent the last several months sharing daily updates on Mars, ...