Overview

• Toni marked her first birthday on June 3 at Berlin Zoo with a frozen fruit “1” dessert, watermelon cake and peanuts.
• Born at 3.5 kilograms, she has grown to about 100 kilograms under the care of her mother, Debbie, and zoo keepers.
• Zoo Berlin is leveraging Toni’s social media reach—including a TikTok debut video with 13.4 million views—to highlight that fewer than 2,500 adult pygmy hippos remain in the wild.
• She is set to transfer later this year to another facility under the European Endangered Species Breeding Program.
• Toni forms part of an online “girl gang” of popular pygmy hippos alongside counterparts in Thailand, the U.S. and Scotland.