Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Monster Engine
A link from my past. This artist takes drawing from young children and recreates their imaginations with a more intense graphical interpretation.
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
The Boy is Back in Town
Finally no more interviewing…! I finished on Thursday but didn’t go out because that morning I woke up with a rich head congestion. It’s been a good couple months … a lot of sleeping on couches in order to save money but also a few perks like living on Miami’s South Beach for 2 days […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
The Tortoise and the Hippo
Who would win in a race between a tortoise and a hippo? It’s one of the fundamental questions plaguing modern society. Until we can answer that, here are some pictures of a 100 year old tortoise adopting a baby hippo.
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 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 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.
Apparently there’s a book out now about Owen and Mzee.
Pictures after the jump.
