Cincinnati Zoo's Baby Hippo Plays with a Box

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens’ baby hippopotamus found a new toy in a video posted on Wednesday, May 17: A box.“Providing Fiona with a variety of objects gives her the opportunity to use all of her senses — sight, sound, smell, touch, and even taste,” the zoo wrote on Facebook. “Exposing animals to a range of stimuli at a young age makes them more comfortable when they encounter new things as adults.”Fiona was born six weeks early in at just 29 pounds, well below the normal 55-110 pound birth weight for hippos. A team from the zoo has been caring for her away from her parents — BiBi and Henry — since her birth. Fiona and BiBi have been re-introduced with barriers between the two recently, which have been positive, according to the zoo.