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Singing 'Happy Birthday' to Fiona on her second birthday
Fiona the hippo celebrates her second birthday on January 24, 2019.
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She is a strong mother and attentive, tending to her little ones with zest.
She ensures, well before they make their first appearance in the world, that they will never go hungry and that they will stay safe, burrowed away from predators until they are grown.
She is a great mom, said Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Mandy Pritchard, insect team leader.
Because this mom is a beetle. Specifically, the American burying beetle.
And she deserves a happy Mother's Day, just as you and your mom do. (And by the way, why not take your mom to the zoo and let her enjoy the moms there? Admission is free for moms on Mother's Day.)
While there (on Sunday or any other time), look for the American burying beetle. It's is among the Cincinnati Zoo's best moms.
"They bury things to raise their young," Pritchard said. ("Things." As in, dead animals.)
The female burying beetle and a male of her kind will find a carcass, excavate underneath it, bury it overnight about a foot-and-a-half deep in the earth. They will layer it with a tremendous amount of secretions (ick), making it into kind of a huge meatball, to prevent it from rotting, Pritchard said. It's hard work, she said.
And when that's done, this beetle mom keeps working, when many of us would probably put a Keep Out sign on our door and take a nap.
She tunnels a short distance from the food treasure and lays some eggs. More eggs if the corpse is large, fewer if it's small. After all, she wants to ensure her larvae are well fed. They will feast on the carcass (ick again) after they're hatched.
She will not do anything for herself until her larvae become pupae and she can do no more. (This sounds familiar.)
Her own life will last but a year, yet this mom tends to her young more vigorously and for longer than many, considering her life expectancy. And she does so in what appears to be a more loving manner than that of many small animal moms.
Let's face it, we've all heard the horror stories of some insect or amphibian or even some fluffy species eating her own young (now that's extreme).
Bibi the hippopotamus might just be the most famous zoo mom for now because her baby is the world-known and beloved Fiona, born prematurely and quite tiny in hippo pounds.
But it's not all about Fiona (believe it or not). Hippos in general are known to be good moms. Bibi just took her role to new levels, say Cincinnati Zoo keepers.
"When she had Fiona and she recognized that Fiona wasn't a completely healthy baby, she trusted us to help with that situation," said Jenna Wingate, senior Africa keeper.
Wingate was on the team that took over care of Fiona early on, when baby was removed from Bibi for newborn intensive care.
Even so, she contributed, allowing the zoo keepers to collect milk from her (can you imagine?) so that Fiona could have the best nutrition right from mom .
And when the time came to put the two nose to nose with just some mesh between them, Bibi welcomed Fiona.
It is not clear whether mom and baby know each other to be bio mom and bio baby, Wingate said, but it doesn't matter to this hippo mom.
Bibi opened her mouth, literally, for Fiona to stick in her head and explore. And Bibi apparently opened her heart to the youngster, too.
Like any good mom, mother will discipline toddler when Fiona, now 2, gets too rowdy. Bibi shares her Timothy hay (a favorite treat!) with Fiona, and they chill together under a zoo waterfall.
Bibi weighs about 3,500 pounds, and Fiona, just 1,078, yet Bibi is as gentle as a mom can be with her calf.
"We have never seen any sort of aggression," Wingate said. "She has taken her in."
And then there are the zoo moms who are most like us: Primates. Specifically, gorillas.
In the Cincinnati zoo, all hail M'Linzi, who had her own offspring in 1995 and treated her with tenderness – and more recently adopted gorilla Gladys and treats her like her own.
Gladys arrived at the zoo in 2013 as an orphaned gorilla. Her own mother at the Brownsville, Texas, zoo, had rejected her, though it is not clear why.
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She was an infant, and like a human infant, this one needed round-the-clock care.
For this, surrogate parents (who were actually zoo experts in furry vests acting like gorillas) took in Gladys. They fed her, held her, never let her touch the ground, just like mom gorillas.
She'd peer at Gladys through a mesh divider, stay nearby when Gladys was clinging to her (rather silly looking) people-gorilla caregivers. And when Gladys was about four months old, M'Linzi stepped in.
"She's an experienced mom. She was perfect," said Ron Evans, the zoo's curator of primates (and a surrogate mom – um, dad? – for Gladys).
M'Linzi, like other mother gorillas, kept Gladys to herself, cuddling her close and, when baby got a little bigger, letting Gladys ride on her back.
Mom never handed over care to another gorilla (unlike human moms who, let's face it, are happy to hand off for a snuggle, feeding or diaper change).
"They are super protective," Evans said (speaking of the gorilla moms, not us).
M'Linzi taught Gladys "gorilla etiquette," he said.
She still keeps an eye out for Gladys, who will become an adult at about age 10. She still mothers the busy, social little gorilla, now 6.
And perhaps most telling about their bond is this, says Evans: "They still sleep together."
There are more excellent moms on the zoo's horizon.
Two Cincinnati Zoo giraffes are pregnant, the zoo announced this week.
Tessa is due in June and Cece is due in the fall, said spokeswoman Michelle Curley.
Zoo curator of mammals Christina Gorsuch is confident that both moms will be fabulous at momdom.
"Giraffes are very attentive and protective mothers," Gorsuch said.
They work as a team, with other females."Not unlike elephants, females in a herd will babysit each other's calves and take turns as lookouts," Gorsuch said.
The mama giraffe's devotion is complete. Should her calf die, she grieves, of course. But do not let her willowy appearance deceive you:
"Female giraffes have been observed guarding deceased calves," said Gorsuch. "And even chasing down and killing lions that have threatened them."

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An adorable baby hippopotamus met his older sister for the first time while frolicking underwater in an enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo.
A video clip posted online by the zoo shows 3-week-old Fritz eagerly waddling into Hippo Cove ahead of lumbering mom Bibi on Wednesday.
Older sister Fiona, 5, appeared curious when Fritz approached but followed cues from their mother and backed away before the Nile hippo calf was able to bump noses with her, the zoo said.
“This first intro went very well,” said Christina Gorsuch, the zoo’s director of animal care.
“Bibi was appropriately protective of Fritz but was not aggressive toward Fiona. The exposure was brief but a great first step.”
Fritz was born Aug. 3 following what the zoo said in April was an unexpected pregnancy while Bibi was on birth control medication.
“We weren’t planning to welcome a baby this soon, but nature found a way and ignored our calendar,” Gorsuch said at the time.
Fritz’s dad, Tucker, was acquired from the San Francisco Zoo in September.
Zookeepers want to make sure that Fiona, Fritz and Bibi are comfortable together before allowing Tucker to join the hippo clan, known as a “bloat.”
It’s unclear when that will happen and Hippo Cove will be closed to the public — with its live cams turned off — to give the creatures privacy during future introductions, the zoo said.
Hippos, which weigh up to 8,000 pounds each, are the world’s heaviest land animals other than elephants.
In the wild, they live in and around the lakes and rivers of sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated population of no more than 130,000, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
The species is listed as vulnerable to extinction by the Switzerland-based International Union for Conservation of Nature, which says the animals’ primary threats to survival are loss of habitat to real estate development and poachers who kill them for meat and ivory.

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