It's
Fiona the
hippo's first birthday, she's eating cake, and I'm crying
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It's
Fiona the
hippo's first birthday. She did it! And she deserves a cake.
The baby hippo, born six weeks premature at the Cincinnati Zoo last January, has become a bonafide celebrity in her
first year of life, making headlines with everything from her
first steps to
that time she crashed an engagement photo.*
But
Fiona is more than a cute baby animal (although she is certainly queen of that category).
she's a success story that wasn't always a sure thing. And her survival is the result of intuitive, amazing round-the-clock care from her keepers — as well as some kind of Fiona-specific tenacity that she probably stores in her ears.
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