The cute creatures are chatty, family oriented—and facing a shrinking habitat in the remote forests of Ecuador ...

One of the most mysterious animals to inhabit the jungle is the pygmy hippopotamus up to 300 ... in their natural surroundings the rain forest of West Africa Set amid stories about their habitat ...

“Pygmies are lazy,” de la Torre said ... There is no want of ostentatious life in the rainforest, among the wide-winged macaws alighting in the overstory and the militaristic millipedes ...