With all that fame, zoo authorities have begun patenting and trademarking to prevent the animal from being commercialised by anyone else.
FacebookZookeeper Atthapon Nundee has been posting cute moments of the animals in his care for about five years. He never imagined Khao Kheow Open Zoo's newborn pygmy hippo would become an internet megastar within weeks.
Already, Moo Deng has been made into memes. Artists are drawing cartoons based on her. Social media platform X even featured her in its official account’s post. The pygmy hippopotamus that's native to West Africa is threatened by poaching and loss of habitat. There are only 2,000-3,000 of them left in the wild.
Appropriately, Moo Deng likes to “deng,” or bounce, and Atthapon has a lot of cute and funny moments or her giddy bouncing on social media.
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