The Tortoise and the Hippo

[Dover]

Can't we all just get along?


Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Kenyan Sanctuary


Thu Jan 6, 7:35 AM ET Science - 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.

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....cont'd

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20050106/sc_nm/kenya_hippo_dc

[kodi]

1. see? this is what homosexual marriage can lead to.

first man and box turtle, next hippo and turtle. where will it end?

[Menshevik]

2. how cute!