Hippo Moo Deng celebrates his first birthday at the Thailand Zoo star-news.press/wp

Thousands of enthusiastic fans flocked to a Thai zoo on Thursday to celebrate his first birthday SoThe wonderful infant hippopotamus that has become Feeling on social media.

The Khao Kheow Open with Moo Deng fans was crossed in the first four days of activities that make up the birthday of the hippopotamus. Children under the age of 12 can enter the zoo, about two hours drive from the capital Bangkok, free of charge throughout the splendor.

Fans are excited

Many Moo Deng fans flew miles away to see them.

Among them was Molly Swindal, who traveled from New York to celebrate. She was seen giving a tray of food to a zoo guard for the Moo Deng breakfast, which is devoured by the baby’s horse and her mother Jona quickly.

“I loved her a lot and decided, you know what, I have three or four days of work,” said Swindal. ))

By noon on Thursday, the number of visitors reached 12,000, and the director of the Naronghuet Zodchoy zoo said. Despite the noise of visitors who are calling for her attention, Mu Deng looked peaceful because she was taken into a pond in the box.

The fans photographed the child’s river horse with their cameras or mobile phones and the rich “Happy Birthday” where her birthday cake, made of a variety of fruits and vegetables, was placed near the pool.

“Moo Deng is a happy birth control pill, and it is my birth control pill, my birth control pills. It’s vitamin!” Thea Chavez, who flew from Houston, Texas said.

Other fans, Jennifer Tang from Malaysia, bent on the box to take pictures.

“It makes me happy,” Tang said. “So my whole office knows that I am here … allowed me to take a week of vacation.”

Animal Zoo hosted online auctions to celebrate Moo DENG’s birthday, with pictures, feet and food containers offered to raise money for all animals under their auspices.

They also held an auction for the honor of her birthday cake care, which walked for 100,000 baht ($ 3,065).

River

Moo Deng rose to Stardom shortly after her birth, due to her goalkeeper, Atthapon Nunde, who shared great photos and videos from HipPo Baby on social media. Atthapon maintains the Moo DENG fans update in the fun moments of HipPo – how she is wrinkled as she tries to wash her, bites him as he tries to play, or quietly closes her eyes as he rubs her stomach.

The name Moo Deng, literally, was chosen “Pigrrhydion” in Thailand, by fans via a social media poll. It matches the names of its other brothers: Moo toon (cooked pork) and Moo Waan (sweet pork). Another river horse is also in the zoo called KHA Moo (the stem of the cooked pork).

The zoo – which is located 800 hectares (about 2000 acres) of the ground and is home to more than 2000 animals – has seen visitors’ mutations shortly from the birth of Moo Deng. But Narongwit said that the number of visitors has decreased somewhat since Moo Deng has increased. He said that the zoo has about 2000 visitors during the day of the week and about 5000 during the weekends during the past few months – about half of the numbers he saw at its peak.

“Moo Deng is a representative of all wild animals, and it helps everyone understand the roles of zoos,” Narongwweth told Associated Press. “She talks about almost all extinct animals, and turns people’s attention to memorization.”

What to know about flower mares

The zoo also runs raising programs for many endangered species, including the programmed hippopotamus. This type is the home of West Africa, as it is threatened with overfishing and losing habitats. Only 2000 to 3000 is left in the wild. The dwarf river mares are now found in the wilder Wildlife Alliance in San Diego. This type is threatened by cutting trees, agriculture and increasing human development.

Pygmy river mares are only one of two types of hippopotamus, according to African Wildlife Foundation. The large/common hippopotamus is the third largest mammal in living land, after elephants and the unicorn of the white century. The dwarf river mares can grow for weight More than 600 poundsWhile the river hippopotamus may weigh 10 times more than the hippopotamus, according to San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

Besides the difference in size, the dwarf river is also less water than the joint river horse, according to L. San Diego Zoo. Their toes are less paved, and they also have only one pair of cutters, while the joint river horse has two or three.

The dwarf river mares are largely night animals, according to experts. The average age ranges between 30 to 50 years.