{"id":386652,"date":"2025-08-31T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386652\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:02:10","slug":"cute-baby-hippo-provides-comical-moment-in-serengeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386652\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute baby hippo provides comical moment in Serengeti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A cute baby hippo found itself spinning its wheels on a slippery rock while trying to keep up with a herd of hippos in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Field safari guide and wildlife photographer Manja Kema, who works in Serengeti, captured video of the comical moment and shared it on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN06-211E2k\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A little baby hippo trying to climb a slippery rock, determined to follow the herd as they leave the shrinking water pods in search of deeper and safer waters,\u201d Kema wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/odds-catching-brilliant-blue-lobster-153019133.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Also on FTW Outdoors: Electric blue lobster catch was one in 200 million;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Also on FTW Outdoors: Electric blue lobster catch was one in 200 million<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So small, yet so full of courage. Nature\u2019s resilience in its purest form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/08\/30\/cute-baby-hippo-serengeti-wildife-video\/85889437007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Baby hippo in Serengeti spins its wheels on a slippery rock;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Baby hippo in Serengeti spins its wheels on a slippery rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cute baby hippo found itself spinning its wheels on a slippery rock while trying to keep up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[116945,134053,70,134050,134051,16,15,1717,134052],"class_list":{"0":"post-386652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-baby-hippo","9":"tag-manja-kema","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-serengeti-national-park","12":"tag-slippery-rock","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wildlife","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121864240534607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}