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.

The Fort Worth Zoo's iconic iguana sculpture is now in hibernation, you might say, as it undergoes a major makeover.

Since it opened in 1909, this Texas zoo has been exposing Fort Worth residents and visitors to wildlife from around the world. When it first opened, the Fort Worth Zoo housed one lion, two bear ...