Healthy female hippo is thriving and running around pen with her mother

Colchester zoo has been celebrating the birth of a baby pygmy hippo. The healthy female, who has yet to be named, was born on 27 November.

A spokeswoman for the Essex zoo said the hippo had grown considerably and was running around the pen with her mother, Venus.

The eight-year-old mother became resident at the zoo in 2002. Since then she had lived separately from the male, Freddy, because the animals were not usually social, the spokeswoman said.

"Mixing pygmy hippos is always a very precarious matter as they can be remarkably ...

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