The Metro Richmond Zoo announced "The Poppy Pygmy Hippo Experience" on Tuesday, giving visitors a chance for up-close and personal encounters with the viral baby hippo and her mom.

The Metro Richmond Zoo has launched a new experience that allows visitors to meet Poppy, the baby endangered pygmy hippo, up close and personal.

Two cases of H5 bird flu have been reported at the Metro Richmond Zoo, marking the first positive test in the zoo’s 30-year ...

A deceased crane at the Metro Richmond Zoo tested positive for H5 bird flu on Thursday, while a second crane presumptively ...

The zoo says the birds did not live in any of its aviaries, where the public shares a common space with birds.

The two cranes passed away from the disease. The affected birds did not live in an aviary that shares a common space with the ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Two cranes cared for by the Metro Richmond Zoo are dead after they became sick with bird ...

Watch Poppy hang out with her mom Iris via the Metro Richmond Zoo’s live Poppy Cam.

The sources of exposure are unclear, but officials said it was almost certainly from contact with an infected waterfowl.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can watch the baby internet sensation play in her pool with her mom at the Metro Richmond Zoo.

Check out Poppy and her mom Iris at the Metro Richmond Zoo's brand new "Poppy Cam!" ...