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.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Seven years ago, the Cincinnati Zoo wanted TIME to name Fiona the hippo Person—er, Animal?—of the Year. But 2024 seems to be on a different level of feral fascination. The plump pygmy hippo ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has launched the Poppy Cam, a new livestream of its baby pygmy hippo Poppy and her mother, Iris.

The Metro Richmond Zoo has launched the Poppy Cam, a new livestream of its baby pygmy hippo Poppy and her mother ... in the Popular Poppy Posts section next to the livestream.

Co-host Savannah Guthrie first suggested the zoo name the baby “Hoda” after co-host Hoda Kotb, who is celebrating her final week on the show this week. Sharing that there were more than 100,000 votes ...