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 Metro Richmond Zoo There's another baby pygmy ...

“While common hippos usually give birth underwater, pygmy hippo calves can be born on land or in water.” Pygmy hippos, known formally as Choeropsis liberiensis, are much smaller than a ...

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 ...

There’s a new hippo in town — and she’s ready to pop into the spotlight. The Metro Richmond Zoo announced the name of its newborn baby pygmy hippo on the “Today Show” Monday after a ...