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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, nicknamedOwen
and weighing about

300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki


River into the
IndianOcean , 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
LafargePark , told AFP.



'After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized.


It had to look for someth ing 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 followed 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 bre aths we take,


but by the moments that take our breath away.'




This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter


much when we need the comfort of another.


We could all learn a lesson from these two creatures of God,


'Look beyond the differences and find a way to walk the path together.'

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