MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet Monroe! He’s a Nile hippo at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe - hence the name choice. General Curator Lisa Taylor says they’re also known as “river ...

Unlike the Nile hippo, which is indigenous to East Africa, the pygmy hippo is found in isolated pockets of West African forests and swamps of the Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone ...

She is Nile’s first daughter. Zoo visitors can now see her in the Pygmy Hippo nursing suite located near the capybaras. She made her public debut March 14. This is the eighth pygmy hippo birth ...

Anuket is a female Pygmy Hippopotamus named after the Egyptian goddess of the Nile River. The Montgomery Zoo said Anuket has been spending her first month of life bonding with her mom behind the ...

You'll see plenty of hippos (and possibly some herons and Nile crocodiles) to snap photos of, but remember that these creatures are very large and very dangeous, so it's best to keep your distance.