Jun 1, 2017

Fiona made her debut to the media in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Cincinnati. The zoo emphasizes she isn’t ready for public display but the media-only event was a step toward that. Fiona was born Jan. 24, weighing 29 pounds (13 kilograms).

: Fiona made her debut to the media in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Cincinnati. The zoo emphasizes she isn’t ready for public display but the media-only event was a step toward that. Fiona was born Jan. 24, weighing 29 pounds (13 kilograms). (Liz Dufour/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)

: FILE- In this April 12, 2017, file photo provided by the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, Fiona a prematurely born hippopotamus, swims in her quarantine enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Zoo recently sent the onesies featuring Fiona’s image to newborns at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Zoo Director Thane Maynard says they were intended as thanks to hospital staff for its help with Fiona and a message of hope to families of premature babies. (Courtesy Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens via AP)

: In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, Zookepper Jenna Wingate speaks during an interview about Fiona, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens’ new baby hippo, at the Hippo Cove exhibit, in Cincinnati. After months of backlash over the zoo’s fatal shooting of Harambe, a gorilla who became a pop culture phenomenon in death, baby Fiona is the new center of attention there. “She has brought everyone together,” said Wingate, one of Fiona’s caregivers. “It brings us to tears sometimes.” (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

: FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, Bibi, a pregnant Nile hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, roams her Hippo Cove exhibit enclosure in Cincinnati. Bibi delivered her offspring, named Fiona, six-weeks prematurely on Jan. 24. The baby hippo was quickly placed under intensive care by zookeepers who scrambled to keep her alive. Since then, millions have seen her on video, thousands have bought “Team Fiona” T-shirts and thousands more have chomped on Fiona-themed cookies. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

: FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, Bibi, a pregnant Nile hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, reaches for lettuce leaves in her Hippo Cove exhibit enclosure in Cincinnati. Bibi delivered her offspring, named Fiona, six-weeks prematurely on Jan. 24. The baby hippo was quickly placed under intensive care by zookeepers who scrambled to keep her alive. Since then, millions have seen her on video, thousands have bought “Team Fiona” T-shirts and thousands more have chomped on Fiona-themed cookies. The public embrace of the Cincinnati Zoo’s prematurely born hippopotamus has helped ease the months of backlash over the death of the zoo’s gorilla Harambe. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

: Fiona makes her debut to the media in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, May 31, 2017, in Cincinnati. The zoo emphasizes she isn’t ready for public display but the media-only event was a step toward that. Fiona was born Jan. 24, weighing 29 pounds (13 kilograms). (Liz Dufour/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)

: FILE – In this April 12, 2017, file photo, Zookeeper Jenna Wingate discusses a Nile hippopotamus named Fiona born prematurely on Jan. 24, during an interview next to the pool of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Hippo Cove exhibit in Cincinnati. The zoo scheduled a Wednesday, May 31, event for news media to photograph the female hippo navigating the 9-foot-deep pool in the exhibit, a step toward Fiona eventually appearing in the exhibit during the zoo’s public operating hours. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

: FILE – In this April 12, 2017, file photo, visitors read a sign about a Nile hippopotamus named Fiona born prematurely Jan. 24, as they pass through the Hippo Cove exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Cincinnati. The zoo scheduled a Wednesday, May 31, event for news media to photograph the female hippo navigating a 9-foot-deep pool in the exhibit, a step toward Fiona eventually appearing in the exhibit during the zoo’s public operating hours. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

: Fiona makes her debut to the media in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Cincinnati. The zoo emphasizes she isn’t ready for public display but the media-only event was a step toward that. Fiona was born Jan. 24, weighing 29 pounds (13 kilograms). (Liz Dufour/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)

: This May 15, 2017, photo provided by the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden shows a can for Listermann Brewing Company’s Team Fiona beer, featuring an image of the Nile hippopotamus named Fiona born prematurely Jan. 24 at the zoo in Cincinnati. Zoo officials say the Cincinnati microbrewery’s New England-style India pale ale will be introduced June 10 with 25 percent of proceeds from sales at seven Cincinnati-area stores earmarked for the zoo’s #TeamFiona fundraising campaign. (Chad Yelton/Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden via AP)

Fiona, Cincinnati’s baby hippo, makes her debut

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