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This is the adorable moment baby hippo Moo Deng bit its zookeeper's boots. Footage shows the five-month-old pygmy hippopotamus playfully nibbling the caretaker's brown water boots as he cleans the ...

Pazi the Pallas's at Lansing’s Potter Park Zoo now has tens of thousands of online fans, and that may be all because of one ...