This little Hippo - the very charm. How cute he learns to swim!

About two months ago in the oldest zoo in Melbourne, Australia, was an exciting event. On the calf was born pygmy hippo, which is not so often the case in captivity. The most recent case in the Melbourne Zoo dating back to 1981. So the birth of Hippo created a furor and led to a large influx of visitors. The kid became a star, and bathed in a stream of attention. Not every pet zoo manages to feel like a celebrity.



Kid was named Obi, which translated from the language of the Igbo people, who live in Nigeria, it means "heart". Hippo grow strong and healthy, staying constantly under the watchful supervision of his mother Petra.



From the first days of birth Obi took water treatment in a special shallow pool, but today he first appeared on the "big water". He's already strong enough to swim at depth, and the staff Zoo depicting an exciting action on video.

Little Hippo unusually touching and charming or even deprived of a certain amount of grace. Obi yet quite small and it is difficult to believe that soon he will grow into an adult hippo weighing under 300 kilograms. Yes, dwarfing these behemoths is only visible on the background of their "normal" family, whose dimensions are much higher.



The population of pygmy hippos in their natural habitat is threatened. Due to massive deforestation and uncontrolled slaughter of animals by poachers, the number of dwarf hippo was reduced to a few thousand individuals.



Defenders of Wildlife are hoping that the popularity of Obi will help draw attention to the problem of preservation of the natural populations of dwarf hippos. They therefore welcome the dissemination of information items. So Share this post with your friends. So you not only give your buddies a couple of minutes of emotion Hippo, but posposobstvuesh good purpose.

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