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The Metro Richmond Zoo is hosting painting classes at the end of the week featuring everyone's favorite baby pygmy hippo, Poppy.
In honor of Pygmy Hippo Day coming up in April, the Metro Richmond Zoo will be hosting two painting classes taught by The Art ...
MOSELEY — Poppy the popular pygmy hippo made her debut in the outdoor Hippo Haven habitat at Metro Richmond Zoo. She and her mom Iris have been living in a climate-controlled indoor habitat ...
This baby pygmy hippo is making her public debut outdoors at a Virginia zoo. The endangered hippo, named Poppy, was born Dec.
MOSELEY, V.A. — Poppy, the latest baby hippo internet sensation, made her outdoor enclosure debut at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, on Friday, March 28. The pygmy hippo calf was ...
After making waves nationally, Poppy the pygmy hippo has waddled back to the outdoors at the Metro Richmond Zoo. Poppy and her mother, Iris, have moved to the Hippo Haven habitat after living ...
The zoo said Poppy and Iris ventured outdoors on March 28, into the Hippo Habitat. "Iris and Poppy love being outside to soak up the sun (and the shade)," the zoo said in announcing young Poppy's ...
A baby pygmy hippo is making her outdoor debut at a Virginia zoo. The endangered hippo named Poppy was born Dec. 9 and it ...
has made her debut in the outdoor Hippo Haven habitat at Metro Richmond Zoo. The nearly four-month-old Poppy, weighing around 80 pounds, is growing rapidly and enjoys a diet of grain, hay, vegetables, ...