A DNA test was carried out after zookeepers noticed that 12-year-old Gen-chan did not display typical male hippo behaviour. Gen-chan arrived in Osaka from Mexico in 2017, and customs documents at ...

When Japan's Osaka Tennoji Zoo took in a hippo named Gen-chan seven years ago, they were told the young animal was a male. Recently, they took a DNA test and found out the mammal is actually a female.

According to Taipei Zoo, it collaborates with domestic zoos such as Shoushan Zoo (壽山動物園), Taitung Chinshang Pastoral Farm, ...

A recent viral video has captured a rare and astonishing moment in the wild: a hippopotamus aggressively confronting three adult male lions ... then reveals a massive hippo charging through ...

Patti was humanely euthanized on Sunday, Nov. 10. According to a statement from the zoo, 55-year-old Patti — who was ...

Patti's death leaves Happy, a male hippo, as the zoo's lone hippo. The zoo's hippo exhibit is currently closed, as is typical in the fall and winter months; Happy will be viewable again in spring.

His name means "first-born" in Yoruba. The Houston Zoo brought in another male pygmy hippo named Silas in 2020 but he died two years later when his heart gave out after a brief illness.

He comes from a zoo in Arizona. Zoosiana staff chose to keep the name Bella, chosen by the Florida keepers, for the female hippo. The male hippo arrived without a name, so Zoosiana staff chose Noche.

Zookeepers said, "Zemora seems to prefer the smaller pools in the upper part of the exhibit while the Zoo's male hippo Maji spends more time in the main pool at the foot of the exhibit." ...