Pablo Escobar died of a gunshot wound during a 1993 shootout at his hideout in Medellin, but Pablo did not go down without leaving a very strange parting gift to his homeland: a bunch of hippos ...

Tourists can get up close and personal with wildlife when they stay in safari camps at Kruger National Park. You never know ...

Unsurprisingly, after Escobar's death no one wanted to claim responsibility for a bunch of full-grown hippos, so the animals were left to their own devices.

Moo Deng is a 2-month-old pygmy hippopotamus who lives at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Si Racha, Thailand, with a bunch of other hippos. After her birth on July 25, ...

Hippos are native to Africa, where they’re considered one of the most dangerous animals on the continent. Photo by Raul Arboleda / Getty Images. The most obvious solution, tracking and killing all the ...

But except for the pygmy species, that adorable baby hippo with its cute ears will grow up in the wild to weigh more than 2 tons. And it can kill a human by trampling, biting or drowning.

Across their range, hippos may be declining at 6% to 8% a year, the scientists said. Estimates of hippo populations across Africa have varied wildlife, from 115,000 to 192,000 over the past decade.

The hippopotamus, commonly called "hippo," is the third-largest living land animal.Male hippos can weigh up to 9,920 pounds while females weigh around 3,000 pounds, according to PBS.". The animal ...

Hippos are the third-largest living land mammal after elephants and white rhinos. Although hippos are indeed unable to swim, they have evolved as a species to develop unique adaptations that allow ...