Hippo pods are hierarchical, ... In countries beset by civil unrest, where people are hungry and desperate, hippos are poached for their meat; one hippo yields about a ton of it.

An aerial survey shows what was once the world’s largest hippo population in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being poached to extinction, global conservationist group WWF International said ...

The global hippo population is now estimated at about 150,000, but there are more than half a million African elephants. The Virunga park covers 800,000 hectares and is Africa’s oldest, created ...