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| This is what our member has to say: i got this in an email from my mom and since it has to do with animals I thought I would post it here. NAIROBI (... |
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01-18-2005, 09:47 PM
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Amazing and Sweet
i got this in an email from my mom and since it has to do with animals I thought I would post it here.
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby-hippopotamus that survived the tsumani waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombasa, officials said.  The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsumani waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. "It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP. "After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatised. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added. "The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.
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01-19-2005, 06:26 AM
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What a great pic!!!! Brought a smile to my face so early in the morning.
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01-19-2005, 08:36 AM
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Well they always say that love is blind!
That picture would make a great Valentine's day card by the way!
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01-19-2005, 10:48 AM
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Awwwwwww!
Thats so sweet! Thats something I have never seen before!
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01-19-2005, 05:00 PM
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i've never seen anything like that before either so I thought I would share. its just so cute.
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