A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at

‘Moo Deng is dramatic and sweet. She plays like a dog, biting at a hand that grabs her snout.’ Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

The thing to know about the pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng is that she is angry, but also she is sweet. In photographs, she is often blurry and at all times, she is shiny. She secretes something known as “blood sweat” which is actually her sunscreen.

She is a hippopotamidae. She is stout. She runs like a piglet and has a snout like a very, very new puppy’s. She is very fast.