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As Moo Deng, the popular pygmy hippo continues to soar in popularity, Newsweek looks at the most popular animals around the globe.

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They have to compromise. Map makers use map projections to transform the Earth onto a flat surface. One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have ...