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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 said.

"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 years," he explained.

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Pretty cool story. I wonder what Tortuga says about it.
I wonder how long it will follow the tortus around.

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I would like to see a picture of the hippo breast feeding off the turtle.

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Why bother, it's not like we as a species are immortal, we're all going to die one day anyway..... Everything eventually becomes extinct. Then a new order arises to take over. Ferns, dinosaurs, us, then ??
As a species, I don't think we are all that important. One small planet in a vast universe....sort of like a pimple on the a$$ of the Infinite..... My, my aren't I philosophical? Or as near as I am ever likely to get.....LOL