Pablo Escobar's imported hippos have become an ecological threat in Colombia, growing to over 160 due to a lack of natural ...

Roland was later airlifted to a Johannesburg hospital where he spent five days before returning to the UK. Statistics reveal ...

The worst drought in 100 years drives Namibia and Zimbabwe to conduct culls in national parks to help alleviate an urgent ...

A British couple who were embarked on a five-week camping safari trip through Southern Africa had their dream vacation ...

Statistics reveal that hippos kill up to 3,000 people annually. Roland still bears deep scars from the 10in (25cm) bite to his stomach, along with injuries to his thigh and shoulder. Recovering at ...

Her skin is always moist and her cheeks pink and peachy. She’s usually seen nibbling at her caretakers’ knees, running around her pen — belly rolls jiggling — or opening her mouth in an ...

A BRIT tourist has told how he miraculously survived being mauled by a hippo. Roland Cherry, 63, was on a river trip with wife Shirley in Zambia when the 1.5-ton beast flipped over their canoe. It ...

Nevertheless, it is well documented that hippos will scavenge from carcasses. There are even cases where hippos kill and eat animals, steal carcasses from lions, and engage in cannibalism. They likely ...

Hippos are the second most dangerous land animals on earth—behind only the disease-carrying mosquito—and are responsible for killing at least 500 people a year.

Moo Deng, a baby pygmy hippo, is drawing large crowds at a zoo in Thailand and has already become a huge sensation online. Even a line of products has been dedicated to the little one. But the ...