Over 100,000 votes poured in to name a baby pygmy hippo at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia. The winner is a sweet tie-in with the mother hippo's name.

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

Virginia Zoo announced the name of the December-born baby pygmy hippo as "Poppy," to which the internet reacted by saying, ...

The Virginia Richmond Zoo has named its baby hippo Poppy following an online poll. Born on December 9, Poppy is a pygmy hippo ...

Poppy the pygmy hippo calf recently got her first taste of swimming. The baby was born at Virginia's Metro Richmond Zoo, in ...

Virginia’s Metro Richmond Zoo welcomed a new arrival - a baby pygmy hippo, born on Christmas Day. The female hippo has been ...

The famed pygmy hippo even received an upgraded zoo enclosure from Canadian cryptocurrency billionaire Vitalik Buterin, who donated more than $290,000 to Moo Deng’s zoo in Thailand so he could be her ...

Metro Richmond Zoo recently celebrated the birth of a pygmy hippo and held an online naming contest that drew more than ...

Poppy, a pygmy hippo, was born at Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia on Dec. 9. Her name was selected by online voters.

We mentioned in last week's Pygmy Hippo Watch (not a phrase I ever expected to write) that Metro Richmond Zoo's yet-unnamed baby was merely the most recent ...

Poppy was born to parents Iris and Corwan after a 7-month gestation. The baby girl is Iris and Corwin’s third calf in 4.5 ...

Co-host Savannah Guthrie first suggested the zoo name the baby “Hoda” after co-host Hoda Kotb, who is celebrating her final ...