The “hoofstock” category of animals covers more than just horses or cows. Hippos have fingernail-like hooves on their webbed feet. Two-month-old pygmy hippo Moo Deng with her keeper at Khao ...

Moo Deng translates into “bouncy pig” or “bouncy pork” and is the name of a special type of meatball native to Thailand. Fans ...

They can run about 18 miles per hour on average, comparable to humans and lizards. Similar to cows, pygmy hippos also have four stomach chambers. They spend at least six hours per day eating.

Acadiana could soon have its own Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo in Thailand who's taken the internet by storm. Zoosiana recently welcomed two pygmy hippopotamuses, Bella and Noche, with the hopes ...

The Fiscalini Ranch Preserve offers 17 hiking trails along Highway 1, winding through bluffs, pine and oak forests and ...

The forests and swamps of West Africa – particularly Liberia – are the native stomping ground of pygmy hippos, but there are believed to be only 2,500 remaining in the wild today, according to ...

Meet Haggis! The tiny pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis) calf was born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo on October 30. The zoo’s adult pygmy hippos Otto and ...

Edinburgh Zoo welcomes a rare pygmy hippo calf, named Haggis Pygmy hippos are endangered, with fewer than 2,500 left in the wild Haggis’s birth boosts awareness for pygmy hippo conservation efforts ...

The Houston Zoo announced the arrival of Akobi, a 477-pound male pygmy hippopotamus from San Francisco, who comes to Houston as part of a breeding program. Akobi, which means "first born" in ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Scottish zoo hopes Haggis the baby pygmy hippo will rival Moo Deng in popularity This photo taken on Oct. 31 ...