Is anything cuter than a baby hippo? Fans of Thailand’s Khoa Kheow Open Zoo don’t think so. The zoo recently held a four-day ...

“She’s an icon and everyone in the world loves her,” said “mooniac” Molly Swindall, who prepared a birthday breakfast for the pudgy internet sensation. “It’s fun to see she’s her same old self. Fame ...

A birthday bash fit for a queen — or at least a very cute hippo.

Adoring fans from around the world converged in Thailand this week to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo who became a social media sensation. John Yang reports.

Totally unfazed that it was her birthday, she wandered around her enclosure, took a few naps and chewed her caretaker’s knees ...

Thousands of fans have flocked to a Thailand zoo to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that's ...

Rescuers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance swooped in to save an underweight American pronghorn fawn found struggling on private land in New Mexico.

Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Kansas welcomed a new baby pygmy hippo. The boy might just become a new internet celebrity.

A male pygmy hippo – the same species as Thailand's viral Moo Deng – was born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kansas ...

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Moo Deng, Thailand’s baby pygmy hippo from that inspired a Saturday Night Live character and thousands of memes, has begun her four-day birthday celebration at Khao Kheow Open Zoo.

Thousands of fans gathered at Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo Thursday to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the viral ...