Photos of a young hippo “Moo Deng” are trending on the internet and is no wonder why everyone is going crazy.
Mulden is a pygmy hippo born just over a month ago in July. People in the internet seem to already take an interest in the one month old baby. This baby Moo Deng came from the Khao Kheow Open Zoo situated in Thailand.
In many cultures, pygmy hippos have a cultural significance. One popular myth holds that the pygmy hippopotamus carried about the first-known light – held in its mouth, a diamond that illuminated the way whenever the animal crossed the first road.
Pygmy Hippopotamus is the scientific name for the Giant water hippo and its relatively smaller and shyer cousin. It is from an African species of a small pig like animal whose skin also resembles that of a hippo’s who is smaller than a common hefty male hippo.
As indicated on the website of the Pygmy Hippopotamus Foundation, it was largely dependent on forests and swampy regions in West Africa, particularly in Liberia but also in Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast.
The pygmy hippopotamus is also known to be primarily an active during the more distant hours of the day and by nature, prefers to spend a large part of its time undercover in thick foliage or hiding near water bodies.
At least proprietor head teacher has a much broader and svelte structure than the pigmy one. Pygmy hippos are often referred to as dwarf hippos, which are excellently swimming animals, with a body length of 14 to 16 centimetres with an ardent male and a torpid female, but, the height of a pygmy hippopotamus are one half of the height of a normal hippopotamus and its weight is also less than one quarter of the weight of the full sized hippopotamus. “, Pygmy Foundation says.
Still more than the vast proportions of ordinary hippos done to common society, the pygmy hippos are rather more reclusive nuisanced only by mating periods.
Pygmy hippos are powerful swimmers, towing their semi-webbed feet to move through the areas of rivers and streams that they recurrently dwell in for protection from danger.
Though they are naturally water-loving mammals, they are more land-based scratching leaf, root and fruits.
The population of the species remains up to 2500 individuals only in the wild, which is further complicated by habitat destruction and poaching in few countries.
“It was from that point, the very first instance when I saw Moo Deng being born, that I decided that I will develop her to be a celebrity. But I didn’t turn out to imagine it going international. It is that, I thought, she may be popularly known in Thailand but not globally, ” Atthapon Nundee, a zookeeper, told Daily Nation.
As Moden was born, the zoo’s visitor has doubled, according to the BBC.
