Moo Deng, boing boing: Internet’s favourite baby hippo now has an official song

Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng plays with a zookeeper in the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, on Sept 19, 2024. - Photo: AP

BANGKOK: If you think Baby Shark is both hypnotic and annoying with its trance-inducing loops and hyper-repetitive lyrics, wait till you hear the 50-second ditty a Thai music company has produced for everyone’s favourite baby pygmy hippo: Moo Deng.

The song, titled Moodeng Moodeng, plays at an aerobic 145 beats per minute, with babyish lyrics like “Moo Deng Moo Deng, deng, deng, deng” and “Moo Deng Moo Deng, boing, boing”.