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On Dec. 24., the Metro Richmond Zoo in Mosley, Va., announced on its website that it welcomed a baby pygmy hippo just two weeks before Christmas. The baby, a girl, was born on Dec. 9 to parents ...
Christmas came early for pygmy hippo parents at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia.
Hippopotamus skull, showing the large canines and incisors used for fighting. The hippopotamus is a megaherbivore and is exceeded in size among land animals only by elephants and some rhinoceros species. The mean adult weight is around 1,480 kg (3,260 lb) for bulls and 1,365 kg (3,009 lb) for cows.
In this 1953 photograph, Mathilda the hippo, safely immered in her new home, stares up at Gayla Peevey, the little girl whose fast-selling Christmas song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas ...
The Oklahoma City Zoo capitalized upon the popularity of "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" with a fundraising campaign to "buy a hippo for Gayla". The fund raised $3,000 (equivalent to US$34,164 in 2023), and a baby hippopotamus named Matilda (who weighed over 700 pounds [ 2 ] ) was purchased and given to Peevey, which she then donated to ...
He later wrote I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (1953) with Gayla Peevey singing the original version. It was a popular song with 39 artists singing the cover for it. [9] That same year, he was one of several songwriters and lyricists for the Broadway show John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953). [10]
Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologically, their closest living relatives are the cetaceans.
A star is born. Moo Deng the baby pigmy hippo has become an overnight sensation at the Thai zoo where she was born, thanks to massive social media exposure — but now officials are begging ...