Video. With fewer than 2,500 pygmy hippos remaining in the wild, Poppy’s birth is a valuable boost to the species' population.

Poppy, a baby pygmy hippo, made her debut in her outdoor living space at Virginia’s Metro Richmond Zoo, officials said Tuesday. Officials at the facility said that with spring in “full bloom, Poppy ventured outside for the first time with her mother,

This baby pygmy hippo is making her public debut outdoors at a Virginia zoo. The endangered hippo, named Poppy, was born Dec. 9.