Luke

KR Verified account @krinweb3 · Aug 19

My conviction on $Poipoi keeps getting stronger the deeper I look into the animal behind the ticker.

This isn’t just another cute animal meme.

Poipoi is a male pygmy hippo, and the facts around his species are insane:

- Zoo Santo Inácio has reported that only around 1 in 10 pygmy hippo births are male

- Only 2,000–2,400 or fewer are estimated to remain in the wild

- They normally produce one calf at a time

- Choeropsis liberiensis is the only living species in the entire Choeropsis genus

And this is the part that really gets me:

They are the last surviving members of their specific genus.

If they disappear, millions of years of unique evolutionary history are lost forever.

Not just one endangered species.

An entire unique branch of the living tree of life, gone forever.

the fact that $Poipoi is a male newborn from this species, growing up inside a real conservation breeding environment is a life changing for the whole system.

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