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| occrider |
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Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Sanctuary
Thu Jan 6, 9:55 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - 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.
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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.
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Now where can I get an ugly ass baby hippo? |
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| jonze234 |
| quote: | She said the hippo's chances of survival in another herd were very slim, predicting that a dominant male would have killed him.
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the hippo mafia makes its presence known |
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| Dj Dovla |
ohh that is so cute .. I have a similar story, when I was younger I used to deliver flyers for a pizzeria around the hood, well it included alot of walking, so one day there was a mild storm that hit the city and did break couple of trees here and there but nothing major, so I was doing my routine walking from house to house when a little baby squirrel started following me , and everytime I stopped it would sit on my shoe , which were old rodman converse basketball shoes 
so I guess, its mother was lost or killed, I don't know, so it started following the next best resembling thing, kinda like that hippo ..
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| Gauss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Dovla
ohh that is so cute .. I have a similar story, when I was younger I used to deliver flyers for a pizzeria around the hood, well it included alot of walking, so one day there was a mild storm that hit the city and did break couple of trees here and there but nothing major, so I was doing my routine walking from house to house when a little baby squirrel started following me , and everytime I stopped it would sit on my shoe , which were old rodman converse basketball shoes
so I guess, its mother was lost or killed, I don't know, so it started following the next best resembling thing, kinda like that hippo ..
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I wish that happened to me... I'd take that squirrel as my pet and I'd molly coddie it, and I'd cuddle it... :D :haha: :tongue2 :tongue3
But really, squirrel sitting on your shoe whenever you stopped walking... How cute. :tongue2 |
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| Zombie0729 |
have you seen my puppy? do you understand the girls that come up to me in the grocery store?
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| Billabong |
| Surely you people arnt all that ugly with crap personalities. BTW these girls will be fussing over the cute little animals and you wont get any :) |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Now where can I get an ugly ass baby hippo? |
In many parts of the midwest, and the south for that matter, you can find all kinds of women that look alarmingly like a baby hippo.
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| generic |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrSquirrel
In many parts of the midwest, and the south for that matter, you can find all kinds of women that look alarmingly like a baby hippo.
MrS |
and you're the matching squirrel the other guy was talking about? :p
strangely the hippo looks cute, and a dog with blue eyes is freaky
i didn't read any of the long posts |
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| smokeape |
OK, before you guys start posting friggin' animals out here.
Post something really cute.
And I'm being nice for a change.
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Kyau vs Albert - Falling Anywhere |
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| Dj Dovla |
| quote: | | But really, squirrel sitting on your shoe whenever you stopped walking... How cute |
yeah its so true .. I didn't know what to do, it followed me for couple of houses, I was thinking of running away from it, cuz what the hell am I gonna go with a squirrel but then some ppl stopped on the side of the street called the animal refuge agency and I guess they took it somewhere later, but I'll always remember that, it was so cute ..
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| stevebutabi |
wait till that baby hippo grows up. most dangerous animal in africa.... though maybe if you neutered it... i dunno
i just got back from kenya and i can tell you they're ing aggressive! |
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| ini |
| quote: | | most dangerous animal in africa.... |
i think u mean a rhino!!:nervous: |
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