The Cincinnati Zoo is already well-known for its successful history of 17 giraffe births within the past 150 years, but its ...

Kapuki, a 20-year-old eastern black rhino, is pregnant with her third child. Come next year, the zoo will have four of the critically endangered species, with only around 5,000 globally.

Twelve bears will compete for votes in a weeklong, single-elimination, bracket-style tournament starting Tuesday.

From Japan to China to Toledo, zookeepers routinely brush hippos' teeth. In the wild, hippos rely on birds and fish for ...

I started recording that, and realized that if that was making me laugh out loud, that the world was going to love it, as ...

Ghost has gone viral as she spends her final days pouring her last energy into caring for her eggs — even though they will ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Staff at John Ball Zoo, with the help of two pygmy hippos, accomplished a historic achievement in animal conservation. The zoo, located in Grand Rapids, welcomed its first-ever ...

Hippo mama Bibi gave birth six weeks early Jan. 24, 2017, to the first Nile hippo born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in 75 years. No one could've imagined what a stir this underdeveloped, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s here! The John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, said Penelope, a pygmy hippo, birthed a calf on Wednesday. The unnamed baby weighs 11 pounds and is the first pygmy ...

A pygmy hippopotamus was born at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids on Wednesday, the facility said in a social media post.