The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia has announced the addition of a baby pygmy hippopotamus, born on Dec. 9. Five days after birth, the yet-to-be-named baby pygmy weighed about 15 pounds, according to ...

The baby hippo, a girl who has not yet been named, was born to parents Iris and Corwin ... The mom and newborn are currently being kept in an enclosure that is not on exhibit to give them privacy ...

Iris and “New Deng” (trademark pending) have been relocated to a private hay-filled enclosure for the time being, which will ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, has revealed on TODAY the name of the baby pygmy hippo born there in December.

After some time being ... baby, “I hope she becomes the next Moo Deng,” Lopez tells Kyle Swenson of the Washington Post. The “adorable pygmy hippo calf” is the third one born to parents ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia announced the newest addition to their animal family, a baby pygmy hippo, just in time for the holidays. The newborn pygmy hippo was born on Dec. 9 after a 7 ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo named its newborn baby pygmy hippo after a worldwide poll Rachel McRady is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an entertainment journalist for more than a decade ...

Zoo gets its own Moo Deng and launches poll to name baby pygmy hippo - The 15-pound newborn was delivered on December 9 ...

Once at full size, they can weigh up to 600 pounds. Before Moo Deng, there was Fiona, the baby hippo born in January 2017 at the Cincinnati Zoo. She arrived six months premature at 29 pounds ...

The United States now has its own pygmy hippo baby to compete with the cute viral hippo babies born in other countries recently.

The calf was born on Dec ... based zoo. "Hippo hooray! The zoo is excited to announce a heartwarming addition to our animal family just in time for the holidays: a baby pygmy hippo.

If you were a fan of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo from a Thailand zoo ... the zoo said when she was born. The public was able to vote on her name from four options, the other three being Juniper, ...