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Spawn_X · 11-16-2005, 09:08 PM

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 Mombassa, 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 tsunami 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.

Spawn_X · 11-17-2005, 05:58 PM

ttt?

ironpig70 · 11-17-2005, 06:04 PM

wonder what would happen if they had kids together

Spawn_X · 11-17-2005, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ironpig70

wonder what would happen if they had kids together

you'd happen.

BajaCherokee92 · 11-17-2005, 06:20 PM

Precious.

pfco3 · 11-17-2005, 06:23 PM

thats cool.

APRILRAZZ · 11-18-2005, 07:11 AM

That's funny!! Gil's cat thinks I am his mother. Little fawker follows me around like a puppy.

Malltero · 11-18-2005, 07:15 AM

I foresee it killing the century old tortoise. Still pretty damn cool though, sweet pictures.

WheelingPiazza · 11-18-2005, 07:24 AM

I was about 2 feet from two big Hippos here. Zoos in other countrys are cool..

Chister · 11-18-2005, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by APRILRAZZ

Gil thinks I am his mother.

Phone for Oedipus... Call for Oedipus..

BlackDak98 · 11-20-2005, 05:19 AM

tight

WA-HCRC · 11-20-2005, 05:22 AM

you gaymo

Dan Dibble · 11-20-2005, 07:12 AM

If that hippo weighs 650lbs, the turtle is huge

11-17-2005, 06:20 PM	#5
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11-17-2005, 06:23 PM	#6
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11-18-2005, 07:11 AM	#7
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11-18-2005, 07:15 AM	#8
Malltero Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Member # 11244 Location: University of Connecticut, Storrs CT Posts: 722	I foresee it killing the century old tortoise. Still pretty damn cool though, sweet pictures. __________________ DougH

11-18-2005, 07:24 AM	#9
WheelingPiazza Registered User Join Date: Mar 2000 Member # 498 Location: San Jose Ca Posts: 3,804	I was about 2 feet from two big Hippos here. Zoos in other countrys are cool.. __________________ Steve, One of the wheelingpiazzas. KI6PZZ

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