After making waves nationally, Poppy the pygmy hippo has waddled back to the outdoors at the Metro Richmond Zoo.

After spending her first month of life behind the scenes with her mother, Anuket, who made her public debut on March 14, can now be seen by zoo patrons in the Pygmy Hippo nursing

Anuket is described as full of energy, feisty, yet full of love, with “a particular fondness for watermelon.” Pygmy hippos, native to the forests and swamps of western Africa, are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).