The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm?

It is a lot for a six-month-old pygmy hippopotamus, this life of intense ... Moo Deng” at every flick of her tail, every wiggle of her bristly jowls. People have fainted in her presence ...

Mostly, Moo Deng ignores the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who have schlepped to an out-of-the-way zoo for one reason: her. She is, somewhat unaccountably, Thailand’s most famous creature in ...

Just like every year, 2024 was an amazing one for animal meme lovers. The star of the show was, of course, Moo Deng, the ...

The zoo has sent two pairs toque macaques, two pairs of purple faced langurs, a pair of black palm civet, a pair of giant squirrel, a pair of pygmy hippopotamus, a pair of water monitors, two pairs of ...

The year was, once again, the warmest on record globally, according to the World Meteorological Organization, with multiple ...

He's small, cute and viral: the baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng, housed in a Thai zoo, has become the star of millions of posts, ...

He's small, cute and viral: the baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng, housed in a Thai zoo, has become the star of millions of posts, memes and videos around the world. But in the wild, the pygmy ...

Reports of baby pygmy hippos in Thailand and in Richmond, Virginia, have garnered much attention for their respective zoos, attracting many visitors. These cuties look like they are lovable little ...