Zoo Basel

When she was born, Nyande (which means ‘beautiful’) weighed only a little more than five-and-a-half kilograms and was about as big as a rabbit. She has had a healthy appetite from the very beginning and so has been putting on 400 grams a day. Today, she weighs a good 36 kilograms. She feeds from her mother every couple of hours and has been eating more and more solid food since she turned two months old. The father of the little pygmy hippopotamus is Napoleon (10).