Moo Deng? Who deng?” the Scottish zoo playfully posted Monday on the social media platform X as it introduced its infant hippo, "Haggis," to the world.

Move over Moo Deng, there’s a new plump and impeccably moisturised kid in town. Thailand’s baby pygmy hippo and internet icon is facing some friendly competition from Edinburgh Zoo’s latest arrival: Haggis.

A new social media sensation has been born at Edinburgh Zoo - meet Haggis the pygmy hippo.After Moo Deng sent the internet wild after playfully biting and headbutting keepers in Thailand, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland was delighted to announce the birth of their own endangered calf to parents Otto and Gloria.