The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is offering 30-minute meet-and-greets with its new baby pygmy hippo Poppy through February ...

At birth Poppy weighed 15 pounds, but fully grown pygmy hippos can reach up to 600 pounds. They are roughly 10 times smaller than a standard-size hippo, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

A female pygmy hippopotamus delivered a healthy calf at the Metro Richmond Zoo earlier this month, officials said — the third ...

At 5 days old, the newborn had a neonatal exam and she weighed 15 pounds. Fully grown pygmy hippos can weigh up to 600 pounds, the zoo said. According to the zoo, the pygmy hippo is an endangered ...

The baby has yet to be named. At five days old, the baby weighed 15 pounds. Fully grown pygmy hippos can weigh up to 600 pounds, according to the zoo. The pygmy hippo is an endangered species ...

Pygmy hippos, thought of as the common hippo's smaller cousin, have been endangered since 2016. They are about half the size of common hippos, weighing less than one-fourth the full size of an ...

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

Full-grown pygmy hippos can weigh up to 600 pounds. (She’s going to need a larger shoebox!) On Jan. 3, she made her public debut, and visitors can now see her and her mother at the zoo’s Hippo ...

When Poppy is fully grown, she could weigh up to 600 pounds ... "The zoo is excited to launch the Poppy Cam, a new live stream of our pygmy hippo duo, Iris and Poppy. The Poppy Cam lets animal ...

weighing less than one-fourth the full size of an adult common hippo, according to the Pygmy Hippo Foundation. Pygmies are native to West Africa, and their average life expectancy is 27 years.