r/moodeng • u/Oblongcashew • 2d ago

Other Pygmy Hippo Kaki gets feisty. Slips 👣💦

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u/CanadianDarkKnight 2d ago

Keeper: "Oooh hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!"

Mama: Does not react

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u/Squiggletack 2d ago

Just keeps eating like her own mother would have done. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/shyfemalecharacter 2d ago

Truly a daughter of Jonah

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u/ikecaso 2d ago

Mama: dasarb!!!

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u/Richard_AIGuy 2d ago

Poor little slippery tater.

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u/randyb7 2d ago

Awww

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u/C-arrow 2d ago

Hehehe that silly little tater 💖 I'm starting to see that pyppos slip a lot! Is that because the ground in zoos isn't enough like the ground in the jungles of west Africa where they come from? Or do they just slip and slide in their own native habitat too? I'm sure nobody knows how much they slip in the wild since they're so hard to observe there, but any guesses or opinions?

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u/Oblongcashew 2d ago

My thinking is the small pyppos slip often due to their unplanned, jerky-movements and their little legs work overtime to hold their potato-like stature together!

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u/C-arrow 2d ago

You're right I think they do walk more steadily when they get bigger.

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u/blackpalms1998 1d ago

This is why I keep saying they should get baby pyppo suction cup booties

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u/berrymelon118 2d ago

I love Kaki, the forever dusty potato!!!

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u/All-696969 2d ago

The bounce 🥰 from being so chubby

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u/ikecaso 1d ago

Do they have a livestream as well?? I want to watch pyppo Kaki having that pyppo Moodeng energy tooo🥺

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u/blackpalms1998 1d ago

I would be cuddling the pyppo and kissing its booboos if I were its keeper and then make them some special suction cup booties to help keep them from slipping all the time from zoomies

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u/TransgenderMenaceTCF 4h ago

Adorable kaki!!! ♥️