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Name that baby pygmy hippo

2008-12-10 05:39:12 GMT2008-12-10 13:39:12 (Beijing Time)  Reuters

INTRO: The little one needs to know who her keepers at a UK zoo are calling so those keepers have asked for your help in naming her.

MOREINFO: The rare pygmy hippo was born at Marwell zoo in Hampshire, England.

SCRIPT:

Marwell zoo in Hampshire, England is celebrating the birth of a new pygmy hippo by asking people to name it.

Pygmy hippos come from West Africa and there are fewer than 3,000 of them in the wild.

This one's a girl, birth weight 18 lbs, the offspring of Wendy and Antoine.

Her keepers have shortlisted four names: Loko. Kadina, Zimmi and Lola.

People can vote for their favourite by going to Marwell zoo's website.

But you've got to be quick about it, they want this little swimmer named in the next two days.

Don't you think she looks like a Lola?

Susan Flory, Reuters

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