70 photos to celebrate Fiona the hippo's 7th birthday
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It's lucky number 7 for the Cincinnati Zoo's most famous and beloved residents!
The once-premature Fiona the hippo turns 7 years old on Wednesday and is thriving.
"Lucky for us, Fiona's health problems are in the past," said Mark Tewes, a zookeeper in the zoo's Africa department. "She's a fully healthy hippo. But, that doesn't mean that the birthdays have gotten any less special. We still celebrate them here, they're still a big deal for us."
Born six weeks premature on Jan. 24, 2017, Fiona weighed only 29 pounds at birth - 25 pounds less than the lowest recorded birth weight for her species.
Now, she's one of the most well-known animals not just in Cincinnati or the country, but around the world, and is on the cusp of hippo adulthood.