the photos have the real ahhhh factor

I thought some people may be interested in the attached photo's. They were emailed to me from Taiwan today.

The photo's and the story has the real Ahhhhhhhh factor.

The narrative that comes with them is as follows;

NAIROBI

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 the Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26th, 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 away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatised. 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 hippos 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.