They’re horny horny hippos!
Fiona, the Cincinnati Zoo’s famous female hippopotamus, has been mating with the male that fathered her younger brother, in line with a recent report.
But unlike the incestuous Targeryan clan in HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” the weird family dynamic isn’t nearly as cringey because it seems — because neither creature can appreciate the concepts of stepchildren and baby daddies, zoo spokeswoman Michelle Curley told Cincinnati TV station WCPO.
“Fiona and Tucker should not related,” Curley said. “This is completely normal for hippos.”
Fiona was born in 2017, six weeks’ premature and too small to face and nurse from her mom, Bibi.
The calf — who weighed only 29 kilos, far below the traditional birth range of 55 to 120 — became a social-media sensation after surviving with round the clock care from zoo employees who found out the right way to recreate her mother’s milk and kept her warm in a makeshift hippo neonatal intensive care unit.
Fiona has since been immortalized through a slew of merchandise that features T-shirts, calendars, mugs, plates, plush toys, children’s books, ceramic figurines, garden statues and Christmas ornaments.
Her dad, Henry, died later in 2017 at 36 and was replaced in September by Tucker, then 18, who was described on the time as Bibi’s “huge, dark and handsome” recent boyfriend.
The couple quickly hit it off and Bibi gave birth to baby Fritz on August 3, after which the zoo released a charming video of Fiona meeting her brother in a watery habitat dubbed “Hippo Cove.”
The hanky panky between Fiona and Tucker isn’t expected to grow the dimensions of their hippo family — generally known as a “bloat” — because Fiona is on contraception medication, in line with the zoo.
But so was Bibi when she got pregnant with Fritz, leading the zoo to say that “nature found a way and ignored our calendar” while announcing his birth.
They’re horny horny hippos!
Fiona, the Cincinnati Zoo’s famous female hippopotamus, has been mating with the male that fathered her younger brother, in line with a recent report.
But unlike the incestuous Targeryan clan in HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” the weird family dynamic isn’t nearly as cringey because it seems — because neither creature can appreciate the concepts of stepchildren and baby daddies, zoo spokeswoman Michelle Curley told Cincinnati TV station WCPO.
“Fiona and Tucker should not related,” Curley said. “This is completely normal for hippos.”
Fiona was born in 2017, six weeks’ premature and too small to face and nurse from her mom, Bibi.
The calf — who weighed only 29 kilos, far below the traditional birth range of 55 to 120 — became a social-media sensation after surviving with round the clock care from zoo employees who found out the right way to recreate her mother’s milk and kept her warm in a makeshift hippo neonatal intensive care unit.
Fiona has since been immortalized through a slew of merchandise that features T-shirts, calendars, mugs, plates, plush toys, children’s books, ceramic figurines, garden statues and Christmas ornaments.
Her dad, Henry, died later in 2017 at 36 and was replaced in September by Tucker, then 18, who was described on the time as Bibi’s “huge, dark and handsome” recent boyfriend.
The couple quickly hit it off and Bibi gave birth to baby Fritz on August 3, after which the zoo released a charming video of Fiona meeting her brother in a watery habitat dubbed “Hippo Cove.”
The hanky panky between Fiona and Tucker isn’t expected to grow the dimensions of their hippo family — generally known as a “bloat” — because Fiona is on contraception medication, in line with the zoo.
But so was Bibi when she got pregnant with Fritz, leading the zoo to say that “nature found a way and ignored our calendar” while announcing his birth.
