Hippo ending for sanctuary's odd couple

The unlikely couple of a baby hippo and a 130-year-old tortoise are still together, a year after the hippo was separated from its family in Kenya by last year’s Indian Ocean tsunami.

The unlikely couple of a baby hippo and a 130-year-old tortoise are still together, a year after the hippo was separated from its family in Kenya by last year’s Indian Ocean tsunami.

The relationship between Owen the two-year-old hippopotamus and Mzee the giant tortoise surprised conservation workers and made international headlines.

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