Shifting the baby weight after a pregnancy can be tough and judging by this picture it looks like Kathi the hippopotamus is struggling a bit.
Nevertheless things seem to be going just swimmingly for the mother who showed off her two-week-old calf on her first public outing at Berlin Zoo in Germany yesterday.
Little Paula was born underwater on November 29 and mother and baby are happy, healthy and bonding nicely, say zookeepers.
The calf is Kathi's second baby and the first hippo to be born at the zoo in three years.
She might seem tiny but Paula already weighs 40kgs (88lbs) and will soon catch up to her mother's full figure, weighing up to a whopping two tons.
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