{"id":472807,"date":"2026-02-17T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472807\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:08:10","slug":"wildlife-world-zoo-welcomes-baby-pygmy-hippopotamus-to-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472807\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife World Zoo welcomes baby pygmy hippopotamus to Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">LITCHFIELD PARK, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium &amp; Safari Park is welcoming an endangered baby pygmy hippopotamus to the West Valley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The 2-week-old hippo, which has not yet been named, is spending her first days exploring the waters of the pygmy hippo habitat with her mother.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Name choices for the new baby pygmy hippo include Cadbury, Twixi, Jellybean and Taffy.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6TNDM3EVHBAIXMOFE7OB5GG64A.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Name choices for the new baby pygmy hippo include Cadbury, Twixi, Jellybean and Taffy.(Wildlife World Zoo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Wildlife World is launching a public naming contest. Guests who visit the zoo can vote at the exhibit for one of four choices: Cadbury, Twixi, Jellybean or Taffy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The winning name will be announced once voting closes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cThis rare and important birth marks another milestone for the zoo\u2019s ongoing commitment to conservation and the care of threatened species,\u201d the zoo said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/188wYtrny4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/188wYtrny4\/\">social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LITCHFIELD PARK, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium &amp; Safari Park is welcoming an endangered baby pygmy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[4958,219285,219281,219283,19156,79,201,219280,219282,219284],"class_list":{"0":"post-472807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-azfamily","9":"tag-baby-pygmy-hippo","10":"tag-endangered-baby-pygmy-hippo-born-at-wildlife-world-zoo","11":"tag-how-to-vote-for-wildlife-world-zoo-baby-hippo-name","12":"tag-phoenix-news","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife","15":"tag-wildlife-world-zoo-baby-hippo","16":"tag-wildlife-world-zoo-baby-hippo-naming-contest","17":"tag-wildlife-world-zoo-litchfield-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}