Toronto Zoo welcomes news addition – a baby pygmy hippopotamus
TORONTO — The Toronto Zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus.
Kindia, a 12-year-old female, gave birth to a female calf late Friday night.
The zoo says the species is endangered and there are only about 2,000 to 3,000 left in the wild in West Africa, mostly in Liberia. Small numbers also found in neighbouring Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast.
Over the past 100 years, the pygmy hippo’s habitat has declined dramatically due to logging, farming and human settlement.