CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Scores of folks gathered at the Metro Richmond Zoo to celebrate Poppy the pygmy hippo's birthday.

But in the capable hands of director Omar Elerian, and featuring an astonishing central performance from Kathryn Hunter, this multi-layered and “engrossing” tragi-comedy about the absurdities of war ...

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On 16, 2025, Berlin Zoo announced the name of its young male hippo after receiving tens of thousands of suggestions from the ...

Snowflake moray eel bodies are distinctive, with black and yellow blotchy markings that resemble snowflakes on a yellow-white ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo completed the transformation of its homes for big African animals by opening a new rhino and hippo facility with a ribbon-cutting event Dec. 9. The new Ladish Co. Foundation ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mahali, the Denver Zoo’s beloved Nile hippopotamus, will stay in the Mile High City a little longer than expected. Zoo officials in July announced that the ...

DENVER — Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance said this week that its beloved hippos' scheduled transfer to a different state this fall has been postponed. In July, the zoo announced Mahali, its Nile ...

Albuquerque’s mayoral election may be headed to a runoff, but polling to decide the name of a baby hippo at the ABQ BioPark Zoo is clear. In the end, Maisy bested Magdalena as voting wrapped up ...

There are approximately 1.9 million described animal species, and only 6,700 of them are mammals. That’s only about a third of one percent, yet the term animal is sometimes erroneously used as a ...