"It is great to have our own little ambassador right here," said the hoofstock team leader at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland.

The Milwaukee Zoo mourns the loss of Patti, the oldest hippo in U.S. zoos, who was known for her spirited personality.

The Houston Zoo got a four year old pygmy hippo named Akobi. He is from the San Francisco Zoo. Here's where you can find him at the Zoo.

The Edinburgh Zoo ... national dish of Scotland that is butt of many jokes, is made in a sheep’s stomach filled with spiced and diced innards. Moo deng is a type of meatball that means “bouncy pork” ...

The Zoological Park Organization has slammed a Buddhist monastery for using the image of "Moo Deng", the pygmy hippo and ...

The Edinburgh Zoo launched a cuteness contest between Haggis, its newborn pygmy hippo, and Moo Deng ... products that don’t typically carry cute connotations. Haggis, the national dish of Scotland ...

After all, there’s room to be made for Haggis, the latest addition to Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo and another pygmy hippo who is ready for her close up. Haggis was born to parents Otto and ...

Her name is as Scottish as it gets, but little Haggis is a long way from her natural home. The forests and swamps of West Africa – particularly Liberia – are the native stomping ground of ...

A new social media sensation has been born at Edinburgh Zoo - meet Haggis the pygmy ... followed suit naming their own baby hippo Haggis after their own national dish. An adult pygmy hippo can ...

HOUSTON — Move over, Moo Deng, there's a new pygmy hippo in town. The Houston Zoo welcomed Akobi recently and he's been getting acquainted with the new home he shares with the bongos.

So the arrival of one of these endangered creatures at Edinburgh Zoo last month has been met with understandable excitement. The hippo house has been temporarily closed “so that our expert ...