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In a Facebook post filled with images of Penelope, the zoo said it's the perfect time to come visit her and her round belly.
The 7-year-old female pygmy hippo arrived at John Ball Zoo in the summer of 2023 from the Toronto Zoo in Canada.
Penelope, one of the zoo’s pygmy hippos, is pregnant, the zoo announced in a Thursday social media post. It will be the pygmy ...
ZooTampa at Lowry Park is celebrating the birth of rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus. ZooTampa at Lowry Park is celebrating the birth of rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus. ZooTampa at ...
Poppy, a pygmy hippo, was born at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia on Dec. 9. ... Just a few months after Moo Deng's birth, a female pygmy calf named Haggis claimed social media fame.
Poppy was born on Dec. 9, 2024, to the Metro Richmond Zoo's resident pygmy hippos Iris and Corwin. Poppy is Iris and Corwin's third calf in four-and-a-half years.
A female pygmy hippopotamus was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo Dec. 9, the zoo announced Christmas Eve. The public is now invited to vote on her name.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The rare pygmy hippo calf born at the Greensboro Science Center has been dubbed Huckleberry. Huckleberry was born on Wednesday, May 24 (so, a Gemini) to parents Holly ...
A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf of the endangered species to be born at the zoo in the last five years, officials said.
ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s a girl! ZooTampa at Lowry Park is celebrating the birth of rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus. The yet unnamed calf was born March 31 and weighed around ten pounds ...
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo announced their own tiny pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was born Oct. 30. The newborn, female calf is "doing well," according to zoo staff.
In a Facebook post filled with images of Penelope, the zoo said it's the perfect time to come visit her and her round belly.