Best of the Zoos’ Recent Batch
Whether you like the idea of zoos or not, you must like that today more than ever we are able to follow the lives of baby animals. What is wrong with zoos? Well, hopefully...
Category: Hippos
Baby Hippo!
That adorable young gentleman in the photo above is none other than Harry the hippopotamus; an eleven pound pygmy hippo that was born recently at a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa. A resident of...
Pygmy Hippos: Just As Cute, Just Not As Big
The smaller cousin of the hippopotamus, the pygmy hippo is still a large mammal in its own right. A primarily herbivorous creauture, the pygmy hippo is also nocturnal and reclussive. Due to the later,...
Baby Hippo Hides Behind Its Mom
Well, there’s a new edition to the Cabarceno wildlife park in Cantabria, Spain, but it seems that she’s not quite ready for the world just yet. Pictured here is newborn baby hippopotamus, she’s just...
Some Unlikely Friends!
In December of 2004, wildlife officials in Malindi, Kenya were alerted that a herd of hippopotamuses were stranded off the coast; dangerously close to the ocean (if hippos get swept out into salt water,...