[hindi_jokes] Something Unusal...(prishi)
A mother duck looks on as one of her chicks falls over while trying to scale a curb Jan. 12 in Little Rock, Ark. The chick eventually made it over the curb and returned to the nest safely.
A newly born hippopotamus swims under the protection of its mother called "Seventh Daughter" at the Tianjin Zoo 75 miles southeast of Beijing, Sept. 19.2. Speciesism Forgotten
Photo was taken in Hindu temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where an abused neglected monkey was seen adopting a stray puppy dog. (Photo: Rafiqur Rahman)3 - Hippo and Tortoise after the Tsunami, plus story of Owen and MzeeA BABY hippopotamus, swept into the Indian Ocean by the tsunami, is finally coming out of his shell thanks to the love of a 120-year-old tortoise.
Owen, a 300kg, one-year-old hippo, was swept down the Sabaki River, into the ocean and then back to shore when the giant waves struck the Kenyan coast.
The dehydrated hippo was found by wildlife rangers and taken to the Haller Park animal facility in the port city of Mombasa.Pining for his lost mother, Owen quickly befriended a giant male Aldabran tortoise named Mzee - Swahili for "old man".
"When we released Owen into the enclosure, he lumbered to the tortoise which has a dark grey colour similar to grown up hippos," Sabine Baer, rehabilitation and ecosystems manager at the park, told Reuters on Thursday.
Haller Park ecologist Paula Kahumbu said the pair were now inseparable.
"After it was swept 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 was left at a very tender age. Hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years."
She said the hippo's chances of survival in another herd were very slim, predicting that a dominant male would have killed him.
Officials are hopeful Owen will befriend a female hippo called Cleo, also a resident at the park.
Jennifer offered to take the fawn from the boys who gratefully accepted. She then went to a neighbour's house nearby who has young children, and borrowed a baby bottle. About two hours later, and after much struggle, she enticed the young fawn, which she named Bella, to drink goat's milk from the bottle. Finally something just clicked, she said When she got a hold of that bottle she just hung on. Jennifer said she called a number of animal recovery centres in the area however none were able to take the fawn so she decided she would welcome the fragile animal into her home and care for it until a safe haven could be found. Meantime Hogan, weighing in at about 100 pounds, decided - to the amazement of his owners that he too would lend a hand in helping young Bella recover. Originally bred in South Africa to hunt lions, hence the breed's older name African Lion Hound. Hogan began fussing over the youngster. He kept a watchful eye over Bella, grooming her and even allowing her to cuddle up beside him in his bed. "You can come on my bed and I'm going to clean your ears!" Aftanas said of Hogan's affection for the fawn. He looked after Bella cleaning her and helping out until she was well enough to go for recovery"
Today, Bella is thriving and has been moved to a recovery location on North Vancouver Island where her progress will continue to be monitored until she is old enough to set out on her own. Though she does not know who the boys are that discovered the fawn, Jennifer was touched by their concern for the orphaned animal. And while Bella's story has a happy ending, she stressed that under usual circumstances, humans should never interfere with wildlife.The story and pictures has brought us in touch with people from all over the world. From Hogan's homeland of Australia to Sweden and Memphis, Tennessee. We welcome anyone who would like to share their animal rescue story with us or those that just want to chat about their love of ridgebacks....or fawns.
6. Tiger and Piglets, and vice versaSai Mai, a 26-month-old female tiger, plays with baby pigs at a zoo in Thailand's Chonburi province, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Bangkok, on May 7, 2004?. The Royal Bengali tigress was born in captivity and breast-fed by a female pig for four months after her birth.click on thumbnails to enlarge
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