With each female producing just one calf every two to three years, their slow-growing population is particularly vulnerable to habitat degradation, drought and illegal hunting. Hippos are killed not ...

With no natural predators around and a massive river — the ... killing roughly 500 people a year. Hippos also degrade habitat by polluting and destroying waterways, and their presence in rivers and ...

More than a quarter of our planet's natural "geomorphs" -- animals such as beavers and hippos that, collectively ... found ...

It also includes one of the world's largest known populations of hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius ... the Selous Game Reserve is a natural habitat of outstanding importance for in-situ ...