Baby Hippo Is Growing So Fast, Zoo Starts Measuring Her in Cookies

Maple, the pygmy hippo, has been growing so quickly that the Toronto Zoo apparently needed a new way to help everyone understand just how big its tiny celebrity has become. A measuring tape would have worked, of course, but it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun. Instead, the zoo teamed up with President’s Choice and measured Maple using packages of The Decadent Chocolate Chunk Cookies. The result was an extremely important finding: Maple is now approximately six packages of cookies high. Suddenly, everyone has a much clearer understanding of the situation. Centimeters are fine, but cookies really put things into perspective. Credit: Facebook Maple Is Officially Six Cookie Packages Tall The Toronto Zoo shared the unusual size update after admitting that Maple is “growing faster than we can keep up with.” To demonstrate just how much its little pygmy hippo has grown, the zoo stacked packages of chocolate chunk cookies beside her for scale. Maple came in at six packages high, which somehow feels much more informative than an ordinary measurement. It’s also an appropriately silly way to keep track of a baby hippo the zoo affectionately calls its “Tiny Tank.” Six packages of cookies is in...