Poppy, a pygmy hippo, was born at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia on Dec. 9. Her name was selected by online voters.

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

It’s only early January, but last year’s baby pygmy hippo mania is staying strong. Thailand’s feisty Moo Deng became a social ...

The new baby pygmy hippopotamus that was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in December is now on view at the zoo, according to ...

The young female made her public debut this week, and the Metro Richmond Zoo is asking fans to vote on her name—a choice ...

Virginia Zoo announced the name of the December-born baby pygmy hippo as "Poppy," to which the internet reacted by saying, ...

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

Last year over the summer, a baby pygmy hippo born in Thailand named Moo Deng gained international interest when photos of the playful hippopotamus went viral. Moo Deng, which means "bouncy pork," a ...

The famed pygmy hippo even received an upgraded zoo enclosure from Canadian cryptocurrency billionaire Vitalik Buterin, who donated more than $290,000 to Moo Deng’s zoo in Thailand so he could be her ...

This has been the year of baby pygmy hippos thanks to social media. Now, we thought the babies were done arriving for the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A female pygmy hippopotamus delivered a healthy calf at the Metro Richmond Zoo earlier this month, officials said — the third baby hippo born at the zoo within the past five years.