A newly-born baby pygmy hippo has entered the spotlight! 🦛🎉 This squishy male hippo was born to parents Posie and Pluto at a wildpark zoo in Kansas. | USA TODAY Video

This tiny newborn hippo baby took its first dive and swam like a natural right after birth — no lessons needed! A rare and heart-melting sighting ever seen, witnessing nature's little swimmer embrace the water within moments of entering the world! 🦛💦❤️ After taking its very first breath, it stayed close to its mother, floating - new life begins!❤️🦛 While baby hippos are born underwater and can immediately nurse underwater, they cannot truly "swim" in the way other animals do and rely on their

A baby pygmy hippopotamus was born at a Virginia zoo this holiday season. The animal is endangered with an estimated 2,500 hundred of them remaining in the wild. https://cbsn.ws/3VXdmQk | CBS Evening News