Here’s a friend request we know you’ll like: A weeks-old baby pygmy hippo born at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. The youngster’s name is Kambiri, a Nigerian name meaning “allow me to join this family.” Well, we’re clicking “yes,” that’s for sure.
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August 9, 2010 By
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Way cute. Just a miniature of her mama!
that is one cute hippo baby!
this is totally cute but @0:34 – is that the momma hippo pooping or peeing?
isn’t poop/pee against cute overload’s rules of cuteness? if it isn’t, I vote that it should be…
@LOL-Cal
>>isn’t poop/pee against cute overload’s rules of cuteness? if it isn’t, I vote that it should be…
that news will to be very distressing to millions of lawn ornament fountain owners.
It’s a HOUSE HIPPO!!!!!
Wholly karp, that’s so friggin’ cute!!!!!
Their enclosure must be called the Hippocampus.
LOL-Cal, all I see is little Kambiri walking back and forth behind Mama. And besides, even if it was what you thought it was, all animals are, well, animals, and as such they have biological functions. If you want an animal that doesn’t have biological functions, I would recommend Build-a-Bear, or Gund.
“And no, you can’t have one.” LOL!! Just when I was going to put that on my Christmas list. Darn.
LOL @ Oakley! Nice one!
Bebeh sooooo cute!
*giggles at 260Oakley*
it’s pooping… they always do that tail swagging when they poop… my grandma experienced it (on her coat) up close during a zoo visit when she was a little girl
The shiny tocks and tailio wag at :57 is cute to the eleventieth power.
I want to take a bath with it. I think it would get on well with my rubber ducky.
Wait, does this mean we may really get house hippos?
Remember your rules of cuteness………………..an animal accompanied by a smaller version of the same animal is cute!
Such cuteness, the leetle ears, the leetle tail, the leetle toes! So adorable!
Reminds me of this song
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that’s the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
(Short Music Interlude)
Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian
(Short Music Interlude)
There’s lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!
I think I just experienced my first real, spontaneous, and very much out loud squeeeeee! Totally improved my mood after a stressful day at my soon-to-be-closing office.
Tiny tailio! And lulz @ 260Oakley
The talio keels me!
Aww, bebeh blorp.
i loves me those precocial babies!
WHOA!
Blubbery lovel-ly blorp.
They are so cute before they turn into blood-thirsty killing machines.
@Brinnann I thought of the house hippo too when I saw this. I loved that commercial. Most adorable PSA ever.
sooo cute!!
I want a hippo!!
blorpulence ….. I haz it.
I think the girl´s ozzie accent is cuterer than the minihippo!
Awww I can’t have one?? Booooo
Mini + hippo = mippo?
Minipottomus?
Hippominimus?
I love these ambulatory eggplants!
the baby looks so soft, as opposed to the leathery mama.
that baby hippo is soooooooooooooo cute!