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 of ...

"Most people don't get a hippopotamus for Christmas at all, so we feel lucky to have received two over the years," the Metro Richmond Zoo shared Metro Richmond Zoo Two pygmy hippos in Virginia ...

Visitors can vote on a name for the female pygmy hippo calf born at the Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park in Litchfield Park.

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 public vote has opened to name the Metro Richmond Zoo's newborn female pygmy hippopotamus calf. The calf was born on Dec. 9, according to a Christmas Eve news release from the Virginia-based zoo.

(RICHMOND, Va.) — The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is welcoming a newborn pygmy hippo just before the holidays, the zoo announced in a press release on Dec 24. The newborn arrived on Dec 9. after a ...

Moo Deng, who? There’s a new face at Houston Zoo. Meet Akobi, a four-and-a-half-year-old male pygmy hippo that moved here as part of a breeding recommendation from the @zoos_aquariums (AZA) Species ...

The United States now has its own pygmy hippo baby to compete with the cute viral hippo babies born in other countries recently. Remember Thailand's viral baby pygmy hippo, Moo Deng? She was born this ...