Berichten van 18 juni 2008

Even geen tijd om eigen werk op mijn blog te zetten, maar dit is zeker zo leuk!
Een bericht uit een Keniaanse krant over een waargebeurd verhaal dat ik beslist met jullie wil delen :

Een jong nijlpaardje werd door de tsunami in zee gesleurd en terug aan lang geworpen. Het moederloze jong koos een eeuwenoude landschildpad als pleegmoeder. Sindsdien zijn ze niet meer van mekaar weg te slaan...

         

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 away 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 followed 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.

         

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

"Het leven wordt niet gemeten aan het aantal keer we ademhalen, maar wel aan de momenten dat we ademloos toekijken."

         

This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another. We could all learn a lesson from these two creatures of God : "Look beyond the differences and find a way to walk the path together."

         

Save  the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves." 
"Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed" - Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
 

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Klein pc-probleemke gehad dus geen tijd gevonden om iedereen persoonlijk te antwoorden.
Maar 't raadsel is ondertussen al wel opgelost door Luk, Jan, Klaproosje, Willem, Viva, Chrisje,  Kathleen, Shajongen, Mare, Ingrid,  Maria en William!