Well friends, here’s a potential antidote to your woes: a newborn pygmy hippo right here in the region. On Christmas Eve, the ...

The baby girl is the river horse’s third calf shared with her current mate, Corwin. Iris keeps to a schedule. The new hippo is the second she has given birth to in December, according to the zoo.

Iris and “New Deng” (trademark pending) have been relocated to a private hay-filled enclosure for the time being, which will ...

A pygmy hippo gave birth to an “adorable” baby girl in front of patrons at a Virginia Zoo “just in time for the holidays.” ...

On Dec. 9 at 4:50 p.m., mother Iris gave birth to a 15-pound female hippo. It was the third calf Iris and her mate Corwin have produced in the last 4½ years, according to Jan Lopez, one of the ...

For that reason, zookeepers said two of the other pygmy hippo babies born at Metro Richmond Zoo were moved to different facilities to eventually mate with other members of their species.