Reports of baby pygmy hippos in Thailand and in Richmond, Virginia, have garnered much attention for their respective zoos, ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo named its newborn baby pygmy hippo after a worldwide poll Rachel ... to offer , from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

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 ...

Metro Richmond Zoo launched "Poppy Cam" on Jan. 13 — allowing fans from around the world to watch the baby pygmy hippo splash around ... Over the next week, the little newcomer quickly gained ...

The arrival of the female hippo will mark the next ... 3,000 pygmy hippos remain in the wild, according to Hayden. Their ...

That said, pygmy hippos are still hefty—even from the very start. The Metro Richmond Zoo’s calf weighed 15 pounds five days after her birth—or about twice as heavy as a typical human newborn.

Then, another newborn pygmy hippo named Haggis skyrocketed to fame at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. As for the latest baby, “I hope she becomes the next Moo Deng,” Lopez tells Kyle Swenson of ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo hosted a naming contest for the female baby pygmy hippo born Dec ... zoo said in a statement. “Like a human baby, our little hippo spends her days nursing, sleeping ...

A new experience has opened up at the Metro Richmond Zoo that offers people the chance to meet Poppy the pygmy hippo, and ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo announced "The Poppy Pygmy Hippo Experience" on Tuesday, giving visitors a chance for up-close and personal encounters with the viral baby hippo and her mom.

The Metro Richmond Zoo named its newborn baby pygmy hippo after a ... celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Moo Deng, the Baby Pygmy Hippo from Thailand That Has Taken ...

“Like a human baby, our little hippo spends her days nursing, sleeping, and pooping, but with one glaring difference — she loves to swim,” the zoo said. According to the zoo, pygmy hippos ...