Are hippos dangerous? Hippos hold a common perception of a cute and bubbly demeanor, but that is quite a far cry from the truth. Although their rounded features and cute babies may seem so inviting, ...

Few animals carry a gap between reputation and reality as wide as the hippopotamus. To many casual observers it reads as a ...

A RAGING hippo has attacked a canoe and killed a one-year-old girl with another young student still missing. The canoe was carrying 18 farmers and children when it capsized in Kenya’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hippos will kill other animals, like crocodiles, that enter their territory, especially when protecting babies. Hippos and whales ...

A toddler has died and many people are missing after a boat ferrying 37 villagers in Malawi, in southeastern Africa, was ...

A 1-year-old was killed and 23 people were reported missing after a hippopotamus charged and capsized a canoe in southern Malawi, police said. Thirty-seven people were traveling across the Shire River ...

A toddler has died after a boat ferrying more than 30 villagers across the Shire River in Malawi’s Nsanje district was attacked by a hippo, causing it to overturn, authorities said. A police ...

Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into Colombia decades ago, and the country has been paying for it ever since. A rescued ...

Compared with Africa's other big animals, hippos have been relatively neglected in scientific research. Partly, this is because they're hard to study and dangerous to encounter. Hippos tend to live in ...