The factor to know concerning the pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng is that she is offended, but in addition she is nice. In images, she is commonly blurry and always, she is shiny. She secretes one thing often called “blood sweat” which is definitely her sunscreen.
She is a hippopotamidae. She is stout. She runs like a piglet and has a snout like a really, very new pet’s. She is very quick.
In a single video, a zookeeper gently will get Moo Deng to open her mouth and reveal her small, pointy tooth. Her mom’s snout enters the body. It’s massive, with brief white bristles; the best way it strikes seems lots like the best way a human mom’s snout strikes when she smells her daughter’s hair. Her dad and mom are named Jona and Tony.
Moo Deng is 2 months outdated. She isn’t sufficiently old to eat grass, however she pretends to. Her identify means “bouncy pork”. She is bouncy even in her sleep.
She is, on the identical time, what being in your 20s is like. She is the duality of lady. “Moo Deng probably the most stunning lady on this planet”. Moo Deng is “actually only a lady”. She is aware of that the worth you pay for the rewards of being cherished is the mortifying ordeal of being recognized.
When Moo Deng’s mom is introduced a bowl of roughly chopped fruit and greens, Moo Deng climbs into the bowl. In one other clip, Moo Deng tries to get out of the water the place she had been wallowing, however retains slipping. Pygmy hippos love water, however not as a lot because the a lot bigger and far deadlier frequent hippo, which is extra like a bouncy nice white shark.
The most effective sentences written about Moo Deng are the captions for a sequence of clips of her doing issues, which don’t have full stops after them: “Moo Deng is a playful little hippo who likes to bounce round / it usually retains its mouth open and it should have lots of enjoyable day-after-day earlier than it might probably go to sleep”. That is one half of the hippo she is, all of us are. That is one half, you may say, of the fact we stay in.
Then there may be her (and our) different facet: “For its security the zookeeper generally restricts its motion which makes Moo Deng very offended and it turns its again on the zookeeper / At this level the zookeeper will give its rear a light-weight pat / Moo Deng irritated by the disturbance will bounce up in anger / And later chunk the zookeeper’s knee in secret”. Who’s your zookeeper?
Moo Deng is dramatic and candy. She performs like a canine, biting at a hand that grabs her snout. She chomps on the water from a hosepipe. She weighs greater than 20kg.
Moo Deng was born in Khao Kheow open zoo in Thailand. Native to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea in West Africa, pygmy hippos like forests and swamps: enchantment and muck. They’re nocturnal, however attempt not to consider that an excessive amount of as you watch movies of Moo Deng within the daytime.
There’s a West African story informed about pygmy hippos: they maintain a diamond of their mouths to gentle their method by the forests at night time. It isn’t onerous to consider.
You may sing Moo Deng’s identify as a substitute of Jolene’s within the Dolly Parton track. Individuals appear to need her to go on Sizzling Ones, a present the place celebrities are interviewed whereas consuming more and more spicy rooster wings.
“I like Moo Deng a lot. I might die for her, get reincarnated after which die for her once more,” stated one man.
She is Tony Soprano’s geese, which is to say that she is all we are able to and wish to have a look at, as a result of the longer term is unsure and probably fairly horrible, and the previous appears to be filled with omens, and you are feeling like if you happen to simply have a look at Moo Deng for sufficient days, the nice future will arrive with out you having to expertise how shut it got here to being one other future altogether. Or possibly we’re simply depressed.
As we’ve stated of Moo Deng, and due to this fact of ourselves: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH but in addition, ZzZ.
