SHELLENG, Nigeria (AP) – A hippopotamus that killed two fishermen in Nigeria’s northeast has been shot dead, authorities said Tuesday, highlighting how ill-equipped Nigerian wildlife control officials ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals at Virunga National Park in the DRC are thought to be killed by the bacterial disease. Reading time 2 minutes Anthrax has caused a mass die-off of hippos ...

While large predators like lions and sharks are commonly feared, small animals like hippos, and scorpions cause more human deaths annually.

Karen Paolillo (with the skull of a hippo named Bob) watches over a hippo pod in remote Zimbabwe, where tensions flare. Paul Raffaele Because Africa's scarcest natural resource is water, ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A bloat of hippos lies on the shores of Lake Naivasha where cases of human-wildlife conflict have been on the rise ...

The disease has been connected to the deaths of animals at Virunga National Park in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...