{"id":26210,"date":"2015-06-24T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/definitive-proof-that-theres-nothing-cuter-than-a-baby-hippo-learning-to-swim\/"},"modified":"2015-06-24T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:16:09","slug":"definitive-proof-that-theres-nothing-cuter-than-a-baby-hippo-learning-to-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/definitive-proof-that-theres-nothing-cuter-than-a-baby-hippo-learning-to-swim.html","title":{"rendered":"Definitive Proof That There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Baby Hippo Learning To Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby pygmy hippo Obi might only be 3 weeks old, but he sure is getting the hang of this whole swimming thing.<\/p>\n

Obi and his mom, Petre, ventured into a large pool at the Melbourne Zoo last week<\/a><\/p>\n

For the past few weeks, Obi — whose name means “heart” in Igbo, a Nigerian language — had been learning to swim in a shallow nursery pool, but zookeepers thought it was time for him to take the next step.<\/p>\n

Pygmy hippos, which grow to about one-quarter the weight of a regular hippopotamus<\/a>few thousand<\/a><\/p>\n

Below are a few GIFs so you can watch Obi on an infinite loop:<\/p>\n

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Baby pygmy hippo Obi might only be 3 weeks old, but he sure is getting the hang of this whole swimming thing. Obi and his mom, Petre, ventured into a large pool at the Melbourne Zoo last week For the past few weeks, Obi — whose name means “heart” in Igbo, a Nigerian language — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}