Step aside Moo Deng, there’s a new pygmy hippopotamus in town. Earlier this month, the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, welcomed a baby female pygmy hippo calf whose name will be decided by the public.

Zoo's baby pygmy hippo stealing hearts of Richmonders as naming poll continues

Richmond got a hippopotamus for Christmas — and you can now go visit her. The big picture: The unnamed baby pygmy hippo was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in December, and people are so obsessed with her that a poll to name her got 52,

The Metro Richmond Zoo has had pygmy hippos since 2018, but it was Thailand’s Moo Deng that made the miniature, moist mammals household names. As I walk into the baby’s pen, she follows her mother Iris and slides into a fresh pool of water.

This has been the year of baby pygmy hippos thanks to social media. Now, we thought the babies were done arriving for the year, but the Metro Richmond Zoo