CINCINNATI — Yes. Even hippos need to go to the dentist. In a newly shared video from the Cincinnati Zoo, Tucker the hippo is showing off his pearly whites in a dental procedure he recently underwent.

A special bond between a senior zookeeper at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and a hippo led to a trusting moment.Tucker, the zoo's 4,500-pound hippo, had a misaligned tooth that caused his ...

Hippos' huge tusks and wide gape restrict grinding jaw movements, making their chewing inefficient, according to a new study. Hippos' huge tusks and wide gape restrict grinding jaw movements, making ...

You do not want to get on a hippopotamus’s bad side — it could be the last thing you do! These huge mammals can become vicious if provoked, and even though they haven’t been trained in martial arts, ...

Karen Paolillo (with the skull of a hippo named Bob) watches over a hippo pod in remote Zimbabwe, where tensions flare. Paul Raffaele Because Africa's scarcest natural resource is water, ...

Hippos are large, semi-aquatic mammals with a barrel-shaped body, short legs, and a large head. They have gray or brownish-gray skin, with pinkish areas around their eyes, mouth, and ears. Hippos are ...