Author Topic: Surviving Baby Hippo Adopts Tortoise as Mom (Read 5055 times)

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

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 08, 2005, 06:26:36 PM »

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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.

B E C K · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 09, 2005, 12:47:54 AM »

No!

Quick, to Kenya! :angry:

Fiero · « **Reply #3 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?

Extra Zero · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 09, 2005, 06:13:51 PM »

Yeah, when he steps on her.

Fiero · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 09, 2005, 11:23:31 PM »

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Yeah, when he steps on her.

The turtle is quite a fair bit bigger than the turtle, for now.

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 09, 2005, 11:27:52 PM »

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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.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 10, 2005, 07:35:40 AM »

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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".

B E C K · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 11, 2005, 12:18:29 AM »

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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.

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 11, 2005, 03:55:26 AM »

T-U-R-T-L-E Power

B E C K · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 12:43:06 AM »

That old man ain't a ninja, no way, no how.

Bernie AKA · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 12, 2005, 10:24:13 AM »

I think the foster mom is Sam. That's why he's never here anymore.

B E C K · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 13, 2005, 01:05:52 AM »

Yeah, being a parent will do that.

MegatronYES · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 18, 2005, 02:06:33 PM »

This thread is a lot more of a thread than it is.

Fiero · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 18, 2005, 03:10:30 PM »

Yo mama's snatch smells like turtle soup. Now what, byotcha?