Baby Fiona, it’s you we adore
Despite those first weeks of fearful despair
This sweet young hippo, a princess galore
Twenty-nine pounds, not a single ounce more
A birth weight so low, a life-threatening scare
It’s you, dear Fiona, we’ve come to adore
This preemie’s survival, a dicey chore
Her humans have offered such loving care
To this sweet hippo, this princess galore
Now she gobbles her lunch and looks for more
Topping two hundred pounds, with room to spare
That’s the dear baby who we so adore
Fiona dives and floats and treads the floor
She mouths at her shower with regal flair
This sweetest hippo, this princess galore
She nuzzles her keepers with such rapport
And gives her mom Bibi the fondest stare
Baby Fiona, it's you we adore
Sweetest of hippos, a princess galore
*Note: Fiona was born to parents Bibi and Henry on Jan. 24, 2017, at the Cincinnati Zoo. Six weeks premature, she weighed only 29 pounds, about 25 pounds less than the lowest recorded birth weight for a hippo newborn, and her survival was uncertain for many weeks.
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