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Day 22

This is Monifa having breakfast. She is a Pygmy Hippo calf that was born at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney last year. It had been 23 years since a Pygmy Hippo had been born at the zoo.

Her trusty chick is making sure she polishes off her bowl so she can be big and strong. Click here to see a video of Monifa when she was 3 weeks old.
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