CBS has found itself at the center of a lawsuit regarding "Bert the Farting Hippo," a recurring prop on NCIS,TheWrap.com reports. The company Folkmanis, Inc., which manufactured the original stuffed ...

Folkmanis Inc., a stuffed animal purveyor, is suing CBS Broadcasting for selling a puppet of a farting hippo featured on NCIS. Folkmanis alleges that CBS violated copyright laws by selling "Bert the ...

Is Bert the Farting Hippo — the flatulent puppet and “NCIS” mascot — intellectual property? The whole idea may smell funny to you, but not to Folkmanis, the Emeryville, Calif., puppet company that has ...

JUST how damaging to Western­ ­Sydney is a hippopotamus fart? It’s a question Sydney’s newest zoo had to answer to achieve its ambitious quest to develop one of the world’s greenest wildlife parks.