The world is getting another Moo Deng. On December 9, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia welcomed a newborn female pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis). After some time being raised behind the scenes, ...

Step aside Moo Deng, there’s a new pygmy hippopotamus in town. Earlier this month, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, ...

( NewsNation) — The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia needs help naming its newborn “Moo Deng look-alike.” A pygmy hippopotamus ...

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

No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses, the Internet only likes hippopotamuseses and its wish came true in early December when ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has had pygmy hippos since 2018, but it was Thailand’s Moo Deng that made the miniature, moist mammals ...

Well friends, here’s a potential antidote to your woes: a newborn pygmy hippo right here in the region. On Christmas Eve, the ...

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

Staff at the Metro Richmond Zoo announced the newest addition to their pygmy hippo family Dec. 24, nearly three weeks after ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia has announced the addition of a baby pygmy hippopotamus, born on Dec. 9. Five days after ...

Most people don’t get a hippopotamus for Christmas at all, so we feel lucky to have received two over the years,” zoo ...

Celebrity pygmy hippo Moo Deng has company. A new baby born at the Metro Richmond Zoo will get her name from a public poll.