--- title: Pgymy Hippo Born at Whipsnade Zoological Society of London description: Easily the cutest thing you'll see today canonical: https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-15T20:46:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:37.744Z og:title: Here's an Adorable Newborn Pygmy Hippo Just Doing His Thing og:description: Easily the cutest thing you'll see today og:url: https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's an Adorable Newborn Pygmy Hippo Just Doing His Thing twitter:description: Easily the cutest thing you'll see today twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's an Adorable Newborn Pygmy Hippo Just Doing His Thing ## Video: Inside New York's First Cat Cafe [Watch (HLS stream): Inside New York's First Cat Cafe](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2014-12-12. Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 15, 2015 8:46 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 15, 2015 8:46 PM UTC The Zoological Society of London’s Whipsnade Zoo has released adorable footage of the newest member of its family, a male pygmy hippo calf. The baby’s mom, 28-year-old Flora, gave birth on Boxing Day and had a smooth pregnancy even though she has been battling cancer. In the clip, the animal mostly pals around in the hay with his mother and goes for a swim. Senior keeper Steve White [said](http://www.zsl.org/zsl-whipsnade-zoo/news/boxing-day-baby) in a statement: “On his first weigh-in, he was so slippery it was like picking up a big bar of soap!” The zoo also says the animal “is a particularly welcome addition to the Zoo because there is a shortage of male pygmy hippos within the European Endangered Species Breeding Programme.” In September, a pygmy hippo named Olivia went viral because of her [striking resemblance](http://time.com/3275751/baby-hippo-that-looks-like-michelin-man/) to the Michelin Man. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/"},"headline":"Here's an Adorable Newborn Pygmy Hippo Just Doing His Thing","datePublished":"2015-01-15T20:46:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:37.744Z","description":"Easily the cutest thing you'll see today","url":"https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/","name":"Here's an Adorable Newborn Pygmy Hippo Just Doing His Thing"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside New York's First Cat Cafe","description":"Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0MiiFeak/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-12T19:30:27.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/","duration":"PT1M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3669765/baby-pygmy-hippo/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```