Meet Bumpy! He was rescued at few days old after his mum died, he now lives at Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Kuluku Unit with other orphans. Bumpy is eventually expected to return to the wild.
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r/hippos • u/970souk • 13d ago
Two dozen children vs Pablo Escobar’s hippo: The legal battle to get to a Colombian school
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r/hippos • u/Luther-Heggs • Aug 06 '26
Endangered pygmy hippopotamus born at Toronto Zoo
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r/hippos • u/970souk • Jun 29 '26
A hippopotamus wallows in the waters of the Mkata floodplain, in Mikumi national park, Tanzania
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r/hippos • u/MrFBIGamin • Jun 13 '26
Pictures from Werribee Open Range Zoo:
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Camera quality was poor, but these were the best photos I could take of them.
r/hippos • u/970souk • May 15 '26
A hippo in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia. Villagers in the remote area are worried about the increasing spread of hippos descended from Pablo Escobar's private zoo in the 1980s. Some want them euthanised, while others appreciate the stream of tourists who come to see the animals.
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r/hippos • u/970souk • May 01 '26
Open wide … a hippo wallows in a lagoon in the Hacienda Napoles park, once the private estate of the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, near Puerto Triunfo, Colombia
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r/hippos • u/Oscar-Wildebeest • Apr 28 '26
Young hippo. Murchison Falls NP, Uganda
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r/hippos • u/ateam1984 • Apr 24 '26
Spy hippo records real hippo visiting underwater clinic for skin treatments before relaxing
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