Capybaras are over. If you’re a seal, you should probably delete your socials. In 2024, there’s a new adorable animal taking the world by storm: Moo Deng, a two-month-old hippopotamus who lives in a zoo in Thailand, whose name translates to “bouncy pork”.

But Moo Deng did not achieve viral fame solely because she is cute, although she certainly is that. This is the internet – we see cute animals all the time. What made Moo Deng resonate so widely is nothellip;

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