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Message: <blockquote data-quote="goest" data-source="post: 10105344" data-attributes="member: 305320"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px">" Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed" - Rachel Naomi Remen, MD </span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">[ATTACH]28986[/ATTACH]</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>NAIROBI (AFP)</strong> - A baby hippopotamus that survived the</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him</span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">[ATTACH]28987[/ATTACH]</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">"It is incredible.. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to</span></span></span><span style="color: #808080"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP </span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px">[ATTACH]28988[/ATTACH]</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">"After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother</span></span></span><span style="color: #808080"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">"The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">if somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive,</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px">[ATTACH]28989[/ATTACH]</span></p><p></span></p><p> <span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their</span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">mothers for four years," he explained.</span></span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px">[ATTACH]28990[/ATTACH]</span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, </span></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #808080"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #808080">but by the moments that take our breath away."</span></span></p><p></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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