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Sam Kenobi
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This is silly.
| Quote: | NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby-hippopotamus that survived the tsunami 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 traumatized. 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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B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9
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| Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:18 pm |
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that is SOOOOOO cute!! I showed it to my mom, and she liked it too!
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lionhead
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| Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:03 pm |
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That pic is just too adorable  .
They have got the same color and four legs... But thats about all they have in common.
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
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| Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:25 pm |
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You're only hearing about this now? I loved the story about a month ago... I liked the pic where it looked like the hippo was eating the tortoise (it wasn't, but it was sooo cute!) I'll see if I can find it
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