A visit to Manas National Park of Assam will get you closer to the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig, the pygmy hog.

In India, wildlife cameras and sign surveys have proved that pygmy hog captive breeding and release programs can save this species from extinction. The Pygmy Hog Conservation Program aims to ...

The pygmy hog, the world’s smallest wild pig, stands just 25 cm tall and is native to the tall grasslands of the Himalayan foothills, particularly in Assam’s Manas National Park. Critically ...

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She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new ...

The project is part of the Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme (PHCP) which said the species was one of the "most endangered mammals in the world". PHCP Project Director at Durrell Dr. Parag Jyoti ...

A Virginia zoo got a hippopotamus for Christmas because only a hippopotamus would do. A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf ...

HOUSTON — Move over, Moo Deng, there's a new pygmy hippo in town. The Houston Zoo welcomed Akobi recently and he's been getting acquainted with the new home he shares with the bongos.

The forests and swamps of West Africa – particularly Liberia – are the native stomping ground of pygmy hippos, but there are believed to be only 2,500 remaining in the wild today, according to ...

Move over Moo Deng, there’s a new pygmy in town. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo announced Monday that their own tiny pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was born Oct. 30 to ...