The celebrated hippo’s real home has disappeared—will the world restore it?
The world once had several pygmy hippo species. Only one remains, in West Africa. Credit: IUCN, CC BY-SA The playful and pudgy mammal that went viral from its Thai zoo enclosure has a sad story to tell about her fellow hippos. Moo Deng is the two-month-old pygmy hippo who flicks her ears in joy and…