Labor Day, the hippo, celebrates a birthday

A hippopotamus named Labor Day will celebrate her 32nd birthday at the Kansas City Zoo on Monday with a party and watermelon.

Keepers will give a talk about hippos and will give Labor Day a watermelon, which she can eat whole, at 11:30 a.m. in the African section of the zoo.

Both Labor Day and the zoo’s other hippo, named Liberty, came to the zoo in 1995.

This story was originally published September 6, 2015 at 11:39 AM with the headline "Labor Day, the hippo, celebrates a birthday."