Happy birthday, Hannah Shirley! This year marks 52 trips around the Sun for the world’s oldest living pygmy hippopotamus in managed care, and what better way to celebrate than with a bash based on everyone’s favorite hippo-themed game? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The team at San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center, where Hannah Shirley is resident, really went to town with their party planning. Taking heavy inspiration from Hungry Hungry Hippos , the hippo’s habitat was filled with an adorably goofy-looking carboard hippo, oversized toys representing the different pieces of the game, and of course, plenty of delicious snacks to chomp on. If there’s anything that Moo Deng has taught us, it’s that pygmy

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