GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — You can now meet the newest member of the John Ball Zoo family. The first, a female pygmy hippo named Penelope. She joins male pygmy hippo Jahari, who arrived earlier this year.

A Ramona Wildlife Center pygmy hippo that was rescued more than two decades ago broke a world record this weekend by becoming the oldest living captive pygmy hippo in recorded history, San Diego ...

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According to a recent survey, pygmy chimpanzees in the Congo Basin may have been hunted so extensively that the survival of the species is at risk. Gland, Switzerland - Pygmy chimpanzees or bonobos — ...

WWF-Malaysia's field researcher and elephant tracker Englebert Dausip talks about his experience of tracking pygmy elephants in the forests of Borneo. Englebert "Bert" Dausip, a WWF-Malaysia field ...

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The Metro Richmond Zoo, the only place in Virginia to see hippos, said that pygmy hippos are an endangered West African species with less than 2,500 mature hippos remaining in the wild. "This ...

A Virginia zoo got a hippopotamus for Christmas because only a hippopotamus would do. A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — It’s a boy! Pygmy hippo Jahari, the father of John Ball Zoo’s pygmy hippo calf, helped break the news at a gender reveal event on Thursday, Sept. 11 at the zoo in Grand Rapids. The ...