Animals Around The World / No Speciesism Here

This site can entertain you for hours. Lots of photos of animals and some sweet stories of animals raising other species as their own.

A baby hippopotamus, swept into the Indian Ocean by the tsunami, is thriving 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
The pair are 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.