My New Favorite Animal

Baby Pygmy Hippopotamus

It all started wtih a typical day of binge scrolling through my social media feeds (i.g. Instagram) and I keep seeing similar videos of a particular baby hippo. As a look more into the context of the videos each day that Instagram reccomends a new video, it is about a very cute baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng in Thailand that is slowly being a famous online celebrity with her various and funny reactions or facial expresssions thanks to her caretakers.

Meet Moo Deng

I have chosen this image of Moon Deng because of her very funny facial expressions as if she is mortified from the caretakers (but they are not actually harming her, this is just how she looks).According to context from Instagram, the reason the caretakers from Thailand call her Moon Deng is because it is translated as "bouncy pork"; which, from the looks of it, she is very bouncy looking as her current body is that of a pig with rolls. Her name was actually given from a social media poll to the public when the zoo wanted to welcome the new addition to the family, and the name was the popular choice because of her looks.

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