“She’s an icon and everyone in the world loves her,” said “mooniac” Molly Swindall, who prepared a birthday breakfast for the pudgy internet sensation. “It’s fun to see she’s her same old self. Fame ...

The London Fire Brigade responded to an apartment in the city where a "naughty tortoise" sparked a blaze by knocking over his heat lamp.

A birthday bash fit for a queen — or at least a very cute hippo.

Adoring fans from around the world converged in Thailand this week to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo who became a social media sensation. John Yang reports.

Totally unfazed that it was her birthday, she wandered around her enclosure, took a few naps and chewed her caretaker’s knees ...

Thousands of fans have flocked to a Thailand zoo to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that's ...

Rescuers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance swooped in to save an underweight American pronghorn fawn found struggling on private land in New Mexico.

A male pygmy hippo – the same species as Thailand's viral Moo Deng – was born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kansas ...

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Thousands of excited fans flocked to a Thai zoo on Thursday to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the adorable baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Thailand's pygmy hippo Moo Deng marked her first birthday on Thursday, drawing crowds of diehard fans even as she left behind ...

Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo celebrated the first birthday of its beloved baby pygmy hippo, Moo Deng, who’s captured hearts ...