Whether you want a hippopotamus for Christmas or just like to see them at the zoo, let's get to know more about these semiaquatic mammals' swimming skills, or lack thereof. Can hippos swim?

According to the Tanganyika Wildlife Park, pygmy hippos can typically stay underwater for three to six minutes on a single ...

Do Pygmy Hippos Have Natural Swimming Abilities? Despite their adeptness in the water, neither common hippos nor pygmy hippos know how to swim.

Pygmy hippo Mars didn’t listen to the zoo caretaker when play time in the pool was over, so his mom, Posie, had to step in.

Born Tuesday at the San Diego Zoo, a newborn baby hippo can be seen learning to swim with his mom in a new video posted to the zoo's YouTube channel.

The 3-week-old pygmy hippo calf Obi spent some time splashing around with his mom at the Melbourne Zoo.

Hippos are surprisingly fast runners, reaching up to 50kp/h over short distances — quicker than the fastest human. They usually bear single calves that are born underwater, weighing up to 50kg. A ...

Man braves crocodiles, hippos to set world record in 54-day swim across lake The South African broke two world records in the process.

Hippos swim in the lake at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia ...

The hippopotamus, commonly called "hippo," is the third-largest living land animal. Male hippos can weigh up to 9,920 pounds while females weigh around 3,000 pounds, according to PBS." The animal ...