Brutus, the first hippo to be reintroduced into the Western Cape in 300 years, arrived at Rondevlei in November 1981. The ...

Sunlight is critical to life on Earth, but excessive exposure to sunlight can cause serious harm. Infrared rays can cause burns, and ultraviolet (UV) radiation damages the DNA of cells. So, as you ...

The Rondevlei Nature Reserve in Cape Town is mourning the loss of Brutus, the original male hippopotamus reintroduced to the ...

Lions rarely hunt hippos, but hungry lions can do crazy things. As extreme drought overtakes Katavi, predators struggle to find food. Lions rarely hunt hippos, but hungry lions can do crazy things.

Cape Town residents are mourning the city’s “first hippo”, Brutus, after the 47-year-old bull was found dead at Rondevlei ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals at Virunga National Park in the DRC are thought to be killed by the bacterial disease. Reading time 2 minutes Anthrax has caused a mass die-off of hippos ...

Brutus arrived at Rondevlei in November 1981, and was the first hippo to be reintroduced into the Western Cape in 300 years.

Federal officials are moving too slowly to protect the hippo from a wildlife trade that sends more hippo body parts to the United States than any other country in the world, a collaborative of animal ...

Karen Paolillo (with the skull of a hippo named Bob) watches over a hippo pod in remote Zimbabwe, where tensions flare. Paul Raffaele Because Africa's scarcest natural resource is water, ...

A coup by two hippo bulls is out of the ordinary. An alpha hippo is challenged by two outside males. A coup by two hippo bulls is out of the ordinary, but this is no ordinary year, as a ...