Courtesy of the Dallas Zoo
It’s a girl!
In a social media post Tuesday afternoon, the Dallas Zoo announced the name and gender of the baby hippopotamus that was born on Oct. 30.
The baby female is named Kalo, pronounced Kah-lo. The name is a tribute to a K9 patrol dog at Conservation Lower Zambia.
Kalo is the daughter of Boipelo, who first came to the zoo in 2017 in hopes she would produce offspring.
Courtesy of the Dallas Zoo
While the mother-daughter pair spent the first month of Kalo’s life tucked away from the public eye, they can now be seen on display at the Simmons Hippo Outpost as long as weather allows and mom stays comfortable, the zoo says.
Kalo is Boipelo’s second daughter. In 2019, the Dallas zoo announced the birth of Adanna, who is half-sisters with Kalo.
Social media comments from baby hippo fanatics have already begun to encourage a friendship between Kalo and Fritz, the Cincinnati Zoo’s twitter-famous baby hippo.
