For $175 the Metro Richmond Zoo will let you wade into its pygmy hippo enclosure for an up close and personal hippo experience. Why it matters: The money gets you the chance at 30 minutes with Poppy ...

Two cranes cared for by the Metro Richmond Zoo are dead after they became sick with bird flu. Bird flu, otherwise known as avian influenza, is a disease that spreads naturally among wild water birds ...

Avian influenza is a respiratory virus that spreads quickly among birds, often through nasal and eye secretions and manure.

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is offering 30-minute meet-and-greets with its new baby pygmy hippo Poppy through February.

A deceased crane at the Metro Richmond Zoo tested positive for H5 bird flu on Thursday, while a second crane presumptively tested positive for bird flu.

Poppy — a viral baby pygmy hippo at the Metro Richmond Zoo — got her own livestream on Jan. 13, the Virginia zoo announced.

The Sedgwick County Zoo and Kansas Humane Society banded together to unite kinless Amora the wolf and Slinky the brindle mix.

Poppy, a pygmy hippo, was born at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia on Dec. 9. Her name was selected by online voters.

A new experience has opened up at the Metro Richmond Zoo that offers people the chance to meet Poppy the pygmy hippo, and ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Richmond, Va., announced the baby pygmy hippopotamus ’ name on the Today show after a heated worldwide online poll . Co-host Savannah Guthrie first suggested the zoo name the ...

Americans who have fallen in love with Moo Deng no longer need to travel to Thailand to see a baby pygmy hippo in person. Poppy was born on Dec. 9, 2024, to the Metro Richmond Zoo's resident pygmy ...

A deceased crane at the Metro Richmond Zoo tested positive for H5 bird flu on Thursday, while a second crane presumptively ...