Pygmy hippo is born at Paris Zoo

[Poiuyt]

PARIS - Aldo looks, eats and lazes like a hippopotamus — but he's only about as big as a human baby, at 21 inches. The pygmy hippo, born this month at the Paris Zoo, is one of only a few dozen in Europe, bred in a special program to boost the rare species.

There are no more than 3,000 around the world, mostly concentrated in west African countries such as Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau or Liberia, said Juliane Villenain, a biologist at the zoo in the Bois de Vincennes, a park on Paris' eastern edge. According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, pygmy hippos have already disappeared from Nigeria

[rhiannon55]

1. Awww!!! How cute! eom

[Beaverhausen]

2. What a cutie!!!

Aldo! :loveya:

[matcom]

3. i'll reserve judgement

until I see his 'spank' moves :D