Fiona the hippo was the first Nile hippo born at Cincinnati ... “At the time, you know, we were told the prognosis is not very good at all,” Chad Yelton, vice president of marketing and ...

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 ...

In 1953, a 10-year-old star named Gayla Peevey gave the world something to yearn for when she recorded the classic song, "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." Nearly 70 years later, a zoo in ...