The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm?

Reports of baby pygmy hippos in Thailand and in Richmond, Virginia, have garnered much attention for their respective zoos, ...

Reports of baby pygmy hippos in Thailand and in Richmond, Virginia, have garnered much attention for their respective zoos, attracting many visitors. These cuties look like they are lovable little ...

Mostly, Moo Deng ignores the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who have schlepped to an out-of-the-way zoo for one reason: her. She is, somewhat unaccountably, Thailand’s most famous creature in ...

Pygmy hippos are nocturnal and spend most of their days resting in the water. At night, they leave the water to feed on land. Poppy Cam viewers can expect to see the pygmy hippos sleeping ...

Besides elephants and rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses are the largest living land animal. Though they resemble giant pigs, their ...

Somehow, despite this site's love for hippos of the pygmy variety, we've written very little about hippos of the extremely ...

The zoo has sent two pairs toque macaques, two pairs of purple faced langurs, a pair of black palm civet, a pair of giant squirrel, a pair of pygmy hippopotamus, a pair of water monitors, two pairs of ...

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