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"As terrible as the world is right now, I love that we can all come together and collectively love these hippolings.""As terrible as the world is right now, I love that we can all come together and collectively love these hippolings."The miniature celebrity was born at the Khaow Kheow Open Zoo east of Bangkok, Thailand, and has been steadily going viral for her cute looks and.
Videos of Moo Deng have been getting millions of views on X-formerly-Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. In fact, she's gotten so much attention that caretakers had to restrict her visit hours, as, there are only 2,000 estimated pygmy hippos remaining in the wild, scattered across West Africa. Most of them are believed to be in Liberia.
Unlike their far more massive cousin the river hippopotamus, pygmy hippos only grow to up to roughly 31 inches in height. They're also known to be shy, nocturnal herbivores. There's plenty about the animals that remains unknown, including seemingly basic information like breeding seasons or their exact diet,due to their natural habitat being cut or burned down. The rivers they frequent are being polluted by human activity.
The good news: they breed well in captivity, according to the San Diego Zoo — and Moo Deng's meteoric rise to fame could shed more light on ongoing conservation efforts.If anything, given the drab and depressing news cycle these days, we could all use a little more Moo Deng in our daily lives right now.
"As terrible as the world is right now, I love that we can all come together and collectively love these hippolings," one user
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