Fort Worth Star-Telegram archive/UT Arlington Special Collections May 5, 1947: “Bluebonnet Belle,” a baby hippopotamus bought for Forest Park Zoo last spring through a Star-Telegram fund ...

The Fort Worth Zoo says they're feeling extra ... lowland gorilla while the Dallas Zoo celebrated the birth of a hippopotamus. Details and photos of those births can be found below.

In November, a 477-pound, four-and-a-half-year-old male pygmy hippopotamus named Akobi ... as noted by the Fort Worth Zoo on social media. Ruby was also born earlier this year.