Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Love without borders!

Take a look at this!

and let me hear you say that something is impossible!

And people will complain that long distance relationships are impossible, or differences take us apart, or its difficult for people from different religions, races, backgrounds, to love eachother!

I say, its a matter of how much love you are prepared to give...not about if it is possible!

On other hand, people are lot more complicated and demanding...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong and unusual bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, Kenya officials said.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed "Owen" and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down the Sabaki River into the
Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, 2004 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.

"After it was swept away 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 loving 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.

"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 at least four years," he explained.

4 Comments:

jimbo said...

Read more about Owen & Mzee at their blog:

http://www.lafargeecosystems.com

Join the Owen & Mzee Yahoo Group at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Owen-and-Mzee_Group

Publisher's website will launch soon:

http://www.owenandmzee.com

See Owen & Mzee Movie trailer:

http://tinyurl.com/oxomy

December 13, 2006 7:02:00 PM MET

 
zuzka said...

how cuuuuuuuuuuuute is this!
how did you come across such a thing?

...long distance relationships? expectations?
don't get me started, hehe ;)

December 14, 2006 11:54:00 PM MET

 
Evka said...

thanks for comment...I did a lots of thinking about my recent doubt and i came to almost the same conclussion as you point out actually- depends on what you make happy, or as you said when your heart says to you...

E.

December 17, 2006 3:29:00 PM MET

 
Merili said...

I don't complain long distance relationships are impossible :)
When I was a kid I had a cat who adopted my dog who had lost his mum. She breastfed the puppy and taught him how to fetch and eat mice. Quite sweet...

December 20, 2006 4:50:00 PM MET

 

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