A question of taste in Thai contest to name baby pygmy hippo


  • World
  • Saturday, 30 Nov 2019

A month-old baby pygmy hippo is seen with his mother at his enclosure at Khao Kheow Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand November 30, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

CHONBURI, Thailand (Reuters) - Visitors to a zoo in Thailand are being offered a tasty choice over the name of its newest resident - a baby pygmy hippopotamus that is drawing crowds.

The male was born at the end of October at the state-run Khao Kheaw Zoo in Chonburi province, 80 km (50 miles) east of Bangkok. The zoo's sixth pygmy hippo, it is cute and healthy, but so far nameless.

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