What's in a name? After a spirited global contest, the people have spoken: Richmond Metro Zoo’s baby pygmy hippo now has a ...

The hippo calf was named “Poppy” after a public poll that received over 116,000 votes from 165 countries. Poppy won with 52.8 percent of the vote.

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

An adorable baby pygmy hippo at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, had its first swim accompanied by its mom after ...

Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson came face to face at the 2025 Golden Globes when Diesel took the stage to present the prize for ...

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 ...

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

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Metro Richmond Zoo has released the name of its new pygmy hippo after votes were collected through a poll. The public picked “Poppy” as the hippo’s name, which ...

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 ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, has announced the name of a female baby pygmy hippo born there on Dec. 9. Drum ...

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 ...