100 Year-old Tortoise acts as Mom to Baby Hippo
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. Read more
Bengal Nurses Piglets Dressed In Tiger-Striped Coats
BANGKOK, Thailand — What do you get when you mingle piglets with a tiger or tiger cubs with a pig? Motherly love.
At least that’s what a zoo in Thailand found out after placing several piglets with a 6-year-old bengal tigress.
The bengal feeds the piglets, which were dressed by zoo workers in tiger-pattern coats, and across the cage tiger cubs are fed by a sow.
Zoo officials said the animals have been interchanged with parents for the past few years.
Officials said the reason for the experiment is to amuse visitors.