A Virginia zoo got a baby pygmy hippopotamus for Christmas — and you can vote on her name During a neonatal exam by veterinarians just five days after birth, the baby pygmy hippo weighed in at a ...

Virginia’s newborn pygmy hippo has been named. Drumroll, please. After an online contest run by the Metro Richmond Zoo — where the baby hippo was born in early December — she has been named ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is welcoming a newborn pygmy hippo just before the holidays, the zoo announced in a press release on Dec 24.

A male pygmy hippo – the same species as Thailand's viral Moo Deng – was born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kansas ...

A Virginia zoo welcomes newborn pygmy hippopotamus as year ends Pygmy hippos are an endangered West African species, and only 2,500 mature hippos remain in the wild.

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia welcomed a baby pygmy hippopotamus earlier this month, officials announced.

On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia. Now, you can vote to help decide her name.