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Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: blanktoe on Jan 08, 2005, 01:15:05 PM: :angry: this story is cute

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4152447.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4152447.stm)
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: TM2 Rampage on Jan 08, 2005, 06:26:36 PM: Quote
Ms Kimoti said that if the 300kg hippo continued to thrive then in the next few weeks then they would allow the public to see the unlikely pair together before they are separated.

Those bastards.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: B E C K on Jan 09, 2005, 12:47:54 AM: No! :( Quick, to Kenya! :angry:
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: Fiero on Jan 09, 2005, 02:22:29 PM: It's not too surprising that they'd seperate them, I mean, the turtles like a century old, would you want to see the hippo cry when his terrapin mother dies?
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: Extra Zero on Jan 09, 2005, 06:13:51 PM: Yeah, when he steps on her.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: Fiero on Jan 09, 2005, 11:23:31 PM: Quote
Yeah, when he steps on her.
The turtle is quite a fair bit bigger than the turtle, for now.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: TM2 Rampage on Jan 09, 2005, 11:27:52 PM: Quote

Quote
Yeah, when he steps on her.
The turtle is quite a fair bit bigger than the turtle, for now.
Okay,

1) Referring to the MALE tortoise as a mother
2) Using ambiguous pronouns
3) Fiero's lapses in sanity

are making me confused.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 10, 2005, 07:35:40 AM: Quote
It's not too surprising that they'd seperate them, I mean, the turtles like a century old, would you want to see the hippo cry when his terrapin mother dies?
Don't tortoises live up to or over 200 years of age? I remember reading about one that was 212 years old as a kid in the Weekly Reader at school, and thinking it was older than the United States.

But separation anxiety aside, they'll be dining on turtle soup like Shredder always wanted to as soon as Owen sits on "Daddy".
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: B E C K on Jan 11, 2005, 12:18:29 AM: Quote
It's not too surprising that they'd seperate them, I mean, the turtles like a century old, would you want to see the hippo cry when his terrapin mother dies?
I thought it would be the tortise cry when the hippo dies and then die itself of a heart attack. Unless they get domestic with each other... those hippos are tough.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: TM2 Rampage on Jan 11, 2005, 03:55:26 AM: T-U-R-T-L-E Power
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: B E C K on Jan 12, 2005, 12:43:06 AM: That old man ain't a ninja, no way, no how.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: Bernie AKA on Jan 12, 2005, 10:24:13 AM: I think the foster mom is Sam. That's why he's never here anymore.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: B E C K on Jan 13, 2005, 01:05:52 AM: Yeah, being a parent will do that.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: MegatronYES on Jan 18, 2005, 02:06:33 PM: This thread is a lot more of a thread than it is.
Title: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom
Post by: Fiero on Jan 18, 2005, 03:10:30 PM: Yo mama's snatch smells like turtle soup. Now what, byotcha?