The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is offering 30-minute meet-and-greets with its new baby pygmy hippo Poppy through February.

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia is offering 30-minute meet-and-greets with its new baby pygmy hippo Poppy through February.

Pygmy goats, like other goat breeds, average two kids per litter. Sometimes, breeders get the perfect conditions for triplets to survive. Quadruplets are rarer.

The United States now has its own baby pygmy hippo to compete with other cute viral hippo babies born in other countries recently.