Metro Richmond Zoo recently celebrated the birth of a pygmy hippo and held an online naming contest that drew more than 116,000 votes from 165 countries.
The Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, has announced the name of a female baby pygmyhippo born there on Dec. 9. Drum roll, please... After a public vote, the hippo has been named Poppy, ...
On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmyhippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia. The baby girl is the third hippo calf born to Metro Richmond Zoo resident pygmy ...