Bears rip them up and possums love to hunt for food hidden in the tree's branches, says the zoo.

"Most people don't get a hippopotamus for Christmas at all, so we feel lucky to have received two over the years," the Metro Richmond Zoo shared Metro Richmond Zoo Two pygmy hippos in Virginia ...

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They've diverted 15,000 Christmas trees from entering landfills, but the real joy is the Christmas spirit it lends to their ...

The Topeka Zoo & Conservation Center will take Christmas trees for a few more days after a weekend blizzard may have made it ...

The newborn weighed 15 pounds. The zoo says grown pygmy hippos can weigh up to 600 pounds. The zoo said baby hippo hasn’t been named yet and is not yet ready to be in a public exhibit.

A zoo is asking people to drop off their old Christmas trees so they can be used as "enrichment" for the animals. Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in north Somerset has accepted about 15,000 trees over the ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has a brand-new member -- and you can help decide her name. On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia.

A public vote has opened to name the Metro Richmond Zoo's newborn female pygmy hippopotamus calf. The calf was born on Dec. 9, according to a Christmas Eve news release from the Virginia-based zoo.

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A zoo in Virginia welcomed a baby hippopotamus just in time for Christmas. The Richmond Metro Zoo announced on Dec. 24 the birth of a baby pygmy hippopotamus ...