For $175 per person, people can book a 30-minute play date with Poppy.

Two cases of H5 bird flu have been reported at the Metro Richmond Zoo, marking the first positive test in the zoo’s 30-year history.

There’s another baby pygmy hippo making splashes on the Internet!

MOSELEY, Va. The Metro Richmond Zoo is introducing the first pygmy hippo calf born in Virginia to the world! Zoo officials announced on Saturday that the female pygmy hippo, who has not been named yet, was born on July 26 to parents Iris and Corwin. The pygmy hippo is a rare and endangered species native to West Africa with only 3,000 left in the wild. After two days, the calf weighed 14.5 pounds, while a full-grown pygmy hippo can weigh up to 600 pounds. The baby hippo loves playing in the water and is slowly swimming in deeper water levels each day, the zoo says.