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"Fiona the hippo dazzles in front of the cameras". "Baby Hippo Fiona - Episode 3 Bigger & Better". ^ The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (September 19, 2017)."Baby Hippo, Born Prematurely, Takes Her First Steps". ^ a b Camila Domonoske (February 5, 2017).^ "Cincinnati Children's team gives Fiona life-saving IV"."Hooray for Fiona the Hippo, Our Bundle of Social-Media Joy". ^ a b c Rachel Syme (November 25, 2017)."Cincinnati Zoo's premature hippo Fiona takes first steps". ^ a b Shauna Steigerwald (February 5, 2017).^ a b "Hospital saves dehydrated baby hippo at Cincinnati Zoo".Cincinnati Enquirer – via WKYC (Cleveland). "Premature hippo in critical care at Cincinnati Zoo". ^ Shauna Steigerwald (January 24, 2017)."Henry the hippo, dad of adorable Fiona, dies in Cincinnati". ^ Mallorie Sullivan (November 1, 2017).^ "Hospital saves baby hippo at US zoo".Illustrator Richard Cowdrey has written two books about Fiona, including a Christmas book, A Very Fiona Christmas. She chose the winning team in 2018, chose wrong in 2019, and in 2020 vomited on the item representing the Kansas City Chiefs. įiona has been used to predict the result of the Super Bowl each year since her birth, by choosing between enrichment items with the two teams' emblems. įiona appeared in Cincinnati Ballet's December 2018 production of Nutcracker, played by a 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) dancer, and "stole the show". In August 2018 a mural of Fiona was unveiled in downtown Cincinnati Lucie Rice won the contest to design it. A video posted on social media by the zoo went viral, as did a couple's photographs of Fiona watching them get engaged in October 2017. Saving Fiona, a children's book about her written by the zoo's director, Thane Maynard, was published in June 2018. The Fiona Show was launched on Facebook in August 2017. By December 26, 2018, she weighed slightly over 1,000 pounds (450 kg) on her third birthday in January 2020, 1,300 pounds (590 kg). On her first birthday, January 24, 2018, she weighed more than 655 pounds (297 kg). Fiona took her first steps on February 5, weighed 275 pounds (125 kg) by May 31, when she was introduced to the media, and by June had reached a normal weight of 317 pounds (144 kg) by the time she was six months old, she weighed over 375 pounds (170 kg), and in late August, 451 pounds (205 kg). Zoo staff named the baby hippo Fiona because her ears made them think of the Shrek heroine, and also because it means "fair". The preemie team had previously sent the zoo a care package for her. The following month, while teething, she began refusing her bottle and became dehydrated a catheter for the delivery of intravenous fluids was inserted with the assistance of members of the vascular access team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. This was the first time a hippopotamus had been milked and the milk analyzed. She was unable to stand and required bottle feeding with milk from her mother, supplemented with infant formula. She was born six weeks premature on January 24, 2017, with a birth weight of 29 pounds (13 kg) the recorded range of birth weights for the species at that time was 55–120 pounds (25–54 kg). ) She is the first Nile hippo to be born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 75 years, and the first of the species to be scanned in the womb using ultrasound.
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