Welcome to Creature Feature, production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of Mini Parasites, Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, Fat Babies.

We're talking about some of the biggest babies around.

Everyone's favorite internet hippo, Moodang, as well as the enormous gargantuan, fluffy, and incredible Baby King Penguin Pesto.

I am so excited to talk about these.

I really wanted to sort of have a full discussion about Moudang, the internet

sensation, and what is she, how does she function, why is she, and also the interesting

conversation about how we treat animal celebrities.

Joining me today to talk about these enormous babies is writer for 1-900 Hot Dog, the comedy

website, and of the horror novella Healthy Choices, Lydia Bug.

Hi, thanks for having me.

You actually suggested this topic to me because you mentioned Pesto, the incredible baby King Penguin, who is just apparently growing bigger and bigger.

He's not going to stop until essentially he is the size of a building.

Yeah, I told my husband, it's like me having a baby and it being six feet tall. Yes. That's what it reminds me of. It's wild. It's very wild. So,

but first I do want to talk about Moodying. You are familiar with Moodying, I would presume.

Oh my gosh. Yes, obviously. I'm, I would presume. Oh my gosh.

Yes, obviously.

I'm obsessed with all of the fat baby animals.

There's a TikTok talker who does the Knights of the Rotund table, which is all of the fat baby animals that are at zoos.

And, yeah, Moodang is like king arthur of the knights of the rotund

yeah she's she's incredible uh so let's talk let's talk about her first so mud dang um it's the

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