On a snow-blanketed field in Virginia, a handful of workers were silent but for the groan of a chainsaw chopping through ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, has announced the name of a female baby pygmy hippo born there on Dec. 9. Drum roll, please... After a public vote, the hippo has been named Poppy, ...

Iris and “New Deng” (trademark pending) have been relocated to a private hay-filled enclosure for the time being, which will ...

A Virginia zoo got a hippopotamus for Christmas because only a hippopotamus would do. A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third ...

Metro Richmond Zoo recently celebrated the birth of a pygmy hippo and held an online naming contest that drew more than 116,000 votes from 165 countries.

On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia. The baby girl is the third hippo calf born to Metro Richmond Zoo resident pygmy hippos ...

The two cranes passed away from the disease. The affected birds did not live in an aviary that shares a common space with the ...

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 ...

Watch Poppy hang out with her mom Iris via the Metro Richmond Zoo’s live Poppy Cam.

By Caroline Coleburn Click here for updates on this story CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) -- The Metro Richmond Zoo ...