When Kenya Wildlife Service personnel shot this stray hippo in a thicket in Ol Kalou, Nyandarua County, residents – seeing for dinner – quickly shared out the meat on a first-come-first-served basis.

Embu, Kenya: Nine people are admitted at the Embu Level Five General Hospital after allegedly feasting on a hippo carcass in Kaluku village, Mbeere South Sub-county. Police rushed the victims to the ...

In 1910, the United States faced a national meat shortage — and politicians came up with a shocking solution: import hippos from Africa and farm them in the Louisiana swamps. This short documentary ...

No fewer than 40 fishermen have jointly killed a mother hippopotamus that killed Malam Usman Maigadi, a guard at Orchard Farm owned by the Emir of Yauri, Dr Muhammad Zayyanu-Abdullahi on September 22.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Hippos at a national park in Congo's war-torn east could be wiped out by the end of the year unless action is taken to stop rebel militia slaughtering them for their meat and ivory ...

A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos are ...