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.

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

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

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

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MOSLEY, Va. — The votes have been tabulated, and the baby pygmy hippo at the Metro Richmond Zoo has been named. “Poppy” was the winner in voting from more than 116,000 ballots, the zoo said in a news ...

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

Whether they voted to name her Hammie Mae or Poppy, most visitors CBS 6 spoke with at the Metro Richmond Zoo agreed the new baby pygmy hippo born just a few weeks ago is adorable.

Last year over the summer, a baby pygmy hippo born in Thailand named Moo Deng gained international interest when photos of the playful hippopotamus went viral. Moo Deng, which means "bouncy pork," a ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. The pygmy hippopotamus was born on Dec. 9 and given an official birth ...

Moo Deng and Haggis are joined by another slick, round supreme on the scene — a new pygmy hippo born at Metro Richmond Zoo in ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Metro Richmond Zoo said 52,794 people cast their votes to name their new baby Pygmy hippo. But none of the four options — Poppy, Juniper, Hammie Mae and ...