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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Slurker - 11-23-2005

Tsunami Survivors

NAIROBI (AFP) - 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, told AFP.

"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
four years," he explained.








Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Blueeyedwoman - 11-23-2005

I'm crying.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - cLaY - 11-23-2005



please don't post my cock pics.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Slurker - 11-23-2005

Blueeyedwoman Wrote:I'm crying.

Aww, don't cry alone... Come here. Have some milk and cookies and rest your head on my boobies. :tribal:

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 11-23-2005

Okay, I'm gonna call bullshit on this one.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Blueeyedwoman - 11-23-2005

Slurker Wrote:Aww, don't cry alone... Come here. Have some milk and cookies and rest your head on my boobies. :tribal:

Sorry but the only boobies I like are Flumpers.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - ntype - 11-23-2005

how cute

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 11-23-2005

Blueeyedwoman Wrote:Sorry but the only boobies I like are Flumpers.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Vitamin E - 11-23-2005

It would prolly take a couple extra swing of a baby harp seal club to kill the hippo.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - ntype - 11-23-2005

Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:

luckily I don't use those anymore.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Anhil8tor - 11-23-2005

nsfw E

nsfw E

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Slurker - 11-23-2005

Anhil8tor Wrote:nsfw E

nsfw E

How do I change the title. My brain huwts.

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - Vitamin E - 11-23-2005

Anhil8tor Wrote:nsfw E

nsfw E

'sactly!

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Received this from someone today...I oohed and ahhhed. - ntype - 11-23-2005

Slurker Wrote:How do I change the title. My brain huwts.

once someone answered it...you can't.
It is at this moment that the brilliant admin team is supposed to come into life.

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