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Thailand’s latest internet celebrity, baby hippo 'Moo Deng,' is drawing big crowds to her zoo.

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00:00Thailand's latest celebrity, baby hippo Mudeng, is drawing big crowds to her zoo.
00:05Mudeng, whose name means bouncing pig in Thai, has millions of fans on social media following
00:10her clumsy adventures, including trying to nibble her handler despite still lacking teeth.
00:15The pink-cheeked hippo, whose siblings are called Pork Stew and Sweet Pork, was sitting
00:18happily in a bowl of vegetables and other snacks when Reuters visited the zoo.
00:23Eight hundred visitors used to be the norm for Khao Kaeo Open Zoo in Chonburi Province
00:26during the rainy season.
00:28But with Mudeng's popularity, the zoo gets 3,000 to 4,000 visitors on weekdays and will
00:33count 20,000 visitors over the weekend.

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