"We learned from this lesson and will not allow it to happen again—not to Moo Deng and not to other animals in the zoo," he said. The viral pygmy hippo was not harmed during the stunt, but was “slightly startled” according to the report.
Since that time, though, it’s largely been stuck in a downward spiral, recently changing hands around $0.048, or about a $48 million market cap—nearly 93% off its all-time high. Mainstream media attention, like the recent report from the AFP, typically provide a burst of life to meme coins, which are tokens that are often based on popular culture and events and have no real utility.
Meme coins as a whole have underperformed the majors, though, jumping just 3.6% in the last 24 hours according to CoinGecko.


















