{"id":573313,"date":"2026-08-03T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/573313\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:40:08","slug":"pygmy-hippo-born-at-edinburgh-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/573313\/","title":{"rendered":"Pygmy hippo born at Edinburgh Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pygmy hippos gained popularity in September 2024 after one in Thailand called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy848292dr4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moo Deng went viral<\/a> and was featured in a series of memes due to her fame and cuteness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London Zoological Society estimates there are only between 2,000 and 2,500 left in the wild, and is carrying out conservation work in Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mother Gloria has previously given birth to two calves at Edinburgh Zoo &#8211; Amara in 2021 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c937lvpl3vno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haggis in 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amara was moved to ZSL London Zoo as part of a European breeding programme in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sister Haggis arrived at Wingham Wildlife Park in Kent last October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8r0y68en0vo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described by the wildlife park as a &#8220;sassy wee character&#8221;<\/a>, having featured on featured on NBC&#8217;s Saturday Night Live and received a public apology from Greg James after she was called &#8220;not cute&#8221; on his BBC Radio 1 show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pygmy hippos gained popularity in September 2024 after one in Thailand called Moo Deng went viral and was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-573313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}