The United States now has its own pygmy hippo baby to compete with the cute viral hippo babies born in other countries recently.

Remember Thailand's viral baby pygmy hippo, Moo Deng ... As we talk, the baby's moon-eyed head bobs in the water like a brown and pink ice cube, kicking her tiny legs, wiggling her little ears ...

Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, Flaco the escaped eagle-owl ... an enormous king penguin chick named Pesto — a 50-pound tower of downy brown fluff at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, in Australia ...