Baby Hippo - Cute Alert!
A newborn Baby Hippo pygmy from Rotterdam’s Blijdorp Zoo, is put to scale by lettuce leaves as he dines with mom.
Fact File:
Tame and Shy, pygmy hippos are now endangered, with less than 3000 remaining in the wild. Indigenous to the tropical forests of West Africa, their primary threat is the loss of their forest habitat due to the timber industry. They’re also hunted for their meat.
The pygmy hippo grows to just over 3ft tall - just one fifth of the size of the common hippopotamus and is the only other species of hippo in the world. Reclusive and nocturnal, the mammals are semi-aquatic and need to live near water to keep their skin moisturised and their bodies cool.
Pygmy hippos are plant-eating mammals, feeding on ferns, broad-leaved plants, grasses and fruits they find in the forest.
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