Over 100,000 votes poured in to name a baby pygmy hippo at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia. The winner is a sweet tie-in with the mother hippo's name.
Keepers reported that Poppy is well and learning to be a “pygmy hippo from mom.” She’s nibbling on “some solid foods, and will only eat more and more each day.” The Virginia zoo’s baby ...
Watch Poppy hang out with her mom Iris via the Metro Richmond Zoo’s live Poppy Cam.
On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia. The baby girl is the third hippo calf born to Metro Richmond Zoo resident pygmy ...
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 ...
Metro Richmond Zoo launched "Poppy Cam" on Jan. 13 — allowing fans from around the world to watch the baby pygmy hippo splash around in her pool Luke Chinman is an editorial intern at PEOPLE.
Poppy has already started nibbling on some solid foods, and will eat more and more each day ... Last year over the summer, a baby pygmy hippo born in Thailand named Moo Deng gained international ...