When it’s treat time at the Fort Worth Zoo, hungry hippos are zoned in on watermelon. While the ladies – there are four of them – open wide, staff can check their teeth. It's a deal they've ...

Casey the elephant takes a drink from a water spout in the Natives of Africa and Asia exhibit after his breakfast at the Fort Worth Zoo. A hippopotamus drinks from a spout at the Natives of Africa ...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram archive/UT Arlington Special Collections May 5, 1947: “Bluebonnet Belle,” a baby hippopotamus bought for Forest Park Zoo last spring through a Star-Telegram fund ...

Visitors can get really up close and personal with the hippos in their new habitat ... When we parked at the Fort Worth zoo my 4 year old daughter said “mom is this the real zoo or the other ...

In November, a 477-pound, four-and-a-half-year-old male pygmy hippopotamus named Akobi ... as noted by the Fort Worth Zoo on social media. Ruby was also born earlier this year.

Story suggestion? Editors@star-telegram.com. The Fort Worth Zoo’s Mountains and Desert habitat reopened to the public Thursday after being closed since July 2022 for renovation. The redesigned ...