Dear Diary - Turtle Doves?

[Edwina's Secretary]

he has moved on....leaving only a memory and a small pile of poop!

[RICHARD]

he has moved on....leaving only a memory and a small pile of poop!

"Studs" probably will show up again.


I knew a guy with a huge desert tortise-he would disappear for the winter months....to show up in spring!


He'll be back!

[Vio&Juni]

What a nice present from Santa - too bad he left so quickly. It will come again, dear Eddie and you'll have many more adventures with him.

[Randi]

Eddie, don't worry about him eating your food - he'll be much too slow.

When he comes back again, I bet you'll notice right away .... if you're allowed outside that is!

Edwina, you know how to give him a warm welcome!

[RICHARD]

HeY EdWuRd anD EdwIna,

ThIS Is EdWurD d kAts

sIncE eVeRy ONe iS gETtING a tERTLE fOR xMAs, i WANt oNE tWo!

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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, 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.

"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 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," he explained.

[RICHARD]

http://www.digyourowngrave.com/torto...ts-baby-hippo/