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POPSThe hippo who ditched his muddy waters to catch some sun and surf
'Hippos don't take well to darting' Mr van Schoor explains, 'they die of stress and this one would drown if we darted her in the water, and if we tried to dart her on the beach, she would run into the water for safety and again drown when the drug takes effect.' Hippos are usually captured using passive methods such as monitoring paths that they use regularly and setting up enclosures to lure them into. But Mr Van Schoor says that this hippo's only hope is to stop moving South. He added: 'If the hippo moves any further south there is huge risk, he is moving into residential areas and towards Durban where food for the hippo will become a problem'. Hippos are considered to be one of the most dangerous and aggressive of all animals and with this one coming into contact with humans and domestic animals, it could soon become a problem. Sadly If the hippo does not retrace his own steps and move back north, KZN says there is little hope for him.
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POPSWhich is more dangerous? DEROGATORY TERMS Evildoers Fatties, whales, blimps, tubbies, lard-asses, porkies, chunkies, wide loads, fatsos, piggies, pudgies, hippos, butterballs, Limbaughs
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POPSDwarf Hippo fossils found on Cyprus The bones are dated around 10,000 BC Traces of Humans have been found dating from 8.000 BC, The hippos isolated on Cyprus, adapted, to the conditions, but the arrival of man seemed to lead to their disappearance. (They must have been easy to catch.)
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POPSGoogle Safari Go to source to see close ups, or clicking the underlined words should work as well. Beautiful wildlife!
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POPSGoogle Safari There have been many creatures found on Google Earth, but the most impressive ones are mostly there as part of the National Geographic African Megaflyover Project , which brought us thousands of super-high-resolution aerial photographs of Africa.
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POPSTortoise 'mothers' hippo. Link to video of it; <http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_4190000/newsid_4190000?redirect=4190063.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1> For some reason I couldn't clip it.
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POPSHippos are Dangerous You know, hippos in Africa are the number one cause of death for foreign tourists. Like seriously don't ever try this at home, in fact don't put any part of your body that you value anywhere near a hippos mouth. Never trust a hippo
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POPSThe hippo and the tortoise
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. The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Ind ian 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'," They swim, eat and sleep together, The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,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
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