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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.

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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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