DailySusan Humor Blog

HIP, HIPPO, HOORAY

I got an emailed news story out of Nairobi about a baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami but got separated from his mama. He has bonded with a foster parent, a giant, male, century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa.

The hippo, nicknamed “Owen” and weighing about 650 pounds, eats, swims and sleeps with the tortoise, following him just the way he would follow his mother. An ecologist said hippos are social animals who remain with their mothers usually four years.

I’ve seen a lot of things in my time, but this belongs in the Cuteness Hall of Fame.

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Prayer request: We pray for a strong recovery from quadruple-bypass surgery for our good friend Tom, the father of three and a former assistant softball coach for our daughter. Lord, he’s such a good man, and so young to have such serious cardiac problems. We pray in one accord that this intervention will gain him decades of rich, fulfilling life, ever growing in the knowledge of You and how You are his one and only true hope. (1 Peter 1:21)