Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Kenyan Sanctuary

Sazar · 01-06-05, 01:14 PM

Nice to see this kind of thing goin on...

plus nice to see tortoises I have experience with (those things are MASSIVE and really neat rides when yer a kid

slower than a horse but a lot less painful)

aldabra is a beautiful place if anyone is ever interested in goin... almost got turned into an airbase during the height of the cold war but fortunately that never came to pass

Quote:

A 120-year-old giant tortoise living in a Kenyan sanctuary has become inseparable from a baby hippo rescued by game wardens, officials said on Thursday.

The year-old hippo calf christened Owen was rescued last month, suffering from dehydration after being separated from his herd in a river that drains into the Indian Ocean.

"When we released Owen into the enclosure, he lumbered to the tortoise which has a dark gray color similar to grown up hippos," Sabine Baer, rehabilitation and ecosystems manager at the park, told Reuters.

She said the hippo's chances of survival in another herd were very slim, predicting that a dominant male would have killed him.

However, Owen's relationship with the Aldabran tortoise named Mzee, Swahili for old man, may end soon. The sanctuary plans to place Owen with Cleo, a lonely female hippo.

unfortunately this relationship won't last long... but still a nice story

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...kenya_hippo_dc

Daneel Olivaw · 01-06-05, 01:22 PM

Lonely females... shhhish!

S.I.N · 01-06-05, 01:27 PM

I await the update that says Hippo sits on Tortoise or accidently crushes it.

Son Goku · 01-06-05, 04:18 PM

Well, one doesn't see that, every day

Oh, and yeah, the hipo is better off with another hipo, in the long run at least. I do doubt, after all is said and done, that this hipo could necessarily be submitted back into the wild again...

01-06-05, 01:22 PM	#2
Daneel Olivaw Northwood hugger Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,483	Re: Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Kenyan Sanctuary Lonely females... shhhish! __________________ -Intel Core2 Duo 4300 (3.0GHz) \| Asus P5N-E SLI \| 2GB Corsair CVS PC2-5300 \| GF8800GT 512MB \| Western Digital 1TB \| Antec SLK2600AMB \| Antec TruePower 2.0 480W -Intel Pentium4 2.4C (3.4GHz) \| Asus P4P800 Dlx \| 2GB Crucial Rendition PC-3200 \| GF6800LE 128MB \| Seagate 200GB \| Antec Overture II \| Antec TruePower 2.0 480W Mild agnosticism —the view that the existence or nonexistence of God or gods is currently unknown but is not necessarily unknowable, therefore one will withhold judgment until/if more evidence is available. A weak agnostic would say "I don't know, but maybe you do."

01-06-05, 01:27 PM	#3
S.I.N UnRegistered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: All over Posts: 6,132	Re: Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Kenyan Sanctuary I await the update that says Hippo sits on Tortoise or accidently crushes it.

01-06-05, 04:18 PM	#4
Son Goku No lover of dogma Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: 439 East District, Mount Paozu Posts: 8,472	Re: Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Kenyan Sanctuary Well, one doesn't see that, every day Oh, and yeah, the hipo is better off with another hipo, in the long run at least. I do doubt, after all is said and done, that this hipo could necessarily be submitted back into the wild again...

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