Metro Richmond Zoo launched "Poppy Cam" on Jan. 13 — allowing fans from around the world to watch the baby pygmy hippo splash around in her pool Luke Chinman is an editorial intern at PEOPLE.

Mother hippo Iris and baby Poppy take a dip in a shallow pool. If you happened to be a pygmy hippo born in 2024, then you’re an internet superstar. The world first went bonkers for Moo Deng ...

From baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng to Pesto the penguin, here’s why cute creatures attracted so much attention in 2024.

It’s only early January, but last year’s baby pygmy hippo mania is staying strong. Thailand’s feisty Moo Deng became a social media sensation in 2024, taking the world by storm with her knee ...

A Virginia zoo got a hippopotamus for Christmas because only a hippopotamus would do. A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf ...

Moo Deng ruled the internet in 2024, but a new baby pygmy hippo may be coming for the crown this new year. The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia announced the name of its very own baby pygmy ...

RICHMOND, Va. — If you were a fan of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo from a Thailand zoo, you're in luck: Poppy, a baby pygmy hippo born just over a month ago on December 9, is now able to be ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has launched the Poppy Cam, a new livestream of its baby pygmy hippo Poppy and her mother, Iris. Poppy was born on Dec. 9, 2024, at the zoo. The Poppy Cam lets hippo lovers ...

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 ...

On December 9, 2024, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Mosely, Virginia welcomed a 15-pound female baby pygmy hippo of its own. Whether this new baby will be as big of a ham as Moo Deng, is still too ...

There's another baby pygmy hippo livestream coming your way — this time for Poppy! On Monday, Jan. 13, the Metro Richmond Zoo delighted animal lovers by launching "Poppy Cam," a livestream of ...

There's another baby pygmy hippo livestream coming your way — this time for Poppy! On Monday, Jan. 13, the Metro Richmond Zoo delighted animal lovers by launching "Poppy Cam," a livestream of the ...