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Fiona The Hippo Just Slipped And Fell Into Her Pool While Feasting On A Pumpkin

Fiona The Hippo Just Slipped And Fell Into Her Pool While Feasting On A Pumpkin
Cincinnati Zoo video/YouTube

Hippo's fall shenanigans tickle the internet silly.

Baby hippo Fiona was chowing on some pumpkin for Halloween when she lost her footing and slid into her pool—and the internet is lapping it up.


The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden uploaded the video to YouTube on Oct 31, 2018.

Set to frolicsome spooky music, first mommy hippo, Bibi, bites into a jack-o'-lantern, busting it open in one chomp, before the nearly two-year-old Fiona (born prematurely in January 2017) totters over to munch on the remnants.

Fiona is enjoying the fall treat so much she gets just a little too close to the edge of the rocks and topples into the water.

The zoo captioned the video:

"Trip-or-Treat. Don't worry, the plump princess was just fine. Baby hippo Fiona slips into the water while devouring her Halloween Day pumpkin."



Fiona's Halloween Pumpkin - Trip or Treat - Cincinnati Zoowww.youtube.com


Twitter users loved the video, declaring it "perfection:"




Fiona scored high on the adorbs meter:





Looks like Fiona already had some fans before her pumpkintastic performance:



According to the Cincinnati Zoo's website, Fiona, who was born six weeks early, is the smallest hippopotamus ever to survive.

Annie would some adoption paperwork mailed to her, please:


Some Twitter users commented on Fiona's appetite:








No overstatement here whatsoever:



Can't wait to see what Fiona get for her Thanksgiving Day meal…


H/T: Mashable, YouTube, Twitter

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