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Believe it or not, the Metro Richmond Zoo's precious Poppy was merely the last arrival in a personality-packed lineup of ...
Meet Poppy, the adorable baby pygmy hippo that has captured everyone’s hearts! Poppy, born on December 9, 2024, is rapidly ...
Poppy, a pygmy hippo born into the Metro Richmond Zoo in December, has taken her first steps outside. She’s now viewable to ...
MOSELEY — Poppy the popular pygmy hippo made her debut in the outdoor Hippo Haven habitat at Metro Richmond Zoo. She and her mom Iris have been living in a climate-controlled indoor habitat during the ...
After making waves nationally, Poppy the pygmy hippo has waddled back to the outdoors at the Metro Richmond Zoo.
This marks the eighth pygmy hippo birth at the Montgomery Zoo in the past ... Previous calves bred at the zoo are: Ronda (2024), Meela (2023), Hadari (2022), Betty Rose and Blanche (2019), Levi ...
This photo by RZSS shows newborn pygmy hippo named Haggis, born at Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh, Scotland. Royal Zoological Society of Scotland via AP LONDON — The Edinburgh Zoo launched a cuteness ...
It is estimated that pygmy hippos can grow to ten times their birth weight by the age of five months. The zoo’s previous calves—Ronda (2024), Meela (2023), Hadari (2022), Betty Rose and ...
Hippos, that is. Poppy, a pygmy hippo born into the Metro Richmond ... she’s expected to be about ten times her birth weight. Prior to stepping out to soak up the sun, Poppy, along with her ...
According to Metro Richmond Zoo, pygmy hippos grow very quickly. A month from now, Poppy will be 10 times her birth weight. She still nurses and also nibbles on grain, hay, lettuce, celery ...