Aww! Watch rare baby pygmy hippo’s first swim

The Metro Richmond Zoo released video of a baby pygmy hippo’s first swim! The zoo says the female calf was born on July 26th.

She’s the first pygmy hippo to be born at the zoo and also the first to be born in the state of Virginia.

Pygmy hippos are rare and endangered. Their survival is more certain in zoological parks. That’s one of the reasons the calf’s arrival this summer was so important and special.

Source: METRO RICHMOND ZOO