当一岁小河马碰到百岁老陆龟-彰化中区扶轮社.PDFVIP

當一歲小河馬碰到百歲老陸龜 Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed. 很多生命現象我們目睹它發生的過程，卻無法解釋發生的原因。 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 : 在非洲肯亞的孟巴薩市的野生動物收容所裡，一隻在海嘯中劫後餘生的 小河馬，竟然和一隻百歲陸龜產生親密的親子關係。 The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced 彰化中區扶輪社 網頁編輯組，2010.10.04 1 back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. 該次大海 非洲的肯亞在 2004 年12月 26日發生海嘯的時候 ( 嘯有 300,000 人喪生) ，有一隻重 300 公斤，綽號叫做歐文的小河 馬順著薩巴奇河被沖進印度洋，然後又被沖回海岸，才被野生動物管理 人員救了回來。 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, After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. 真是不可思議！一隻不到一歲的河馬會去認一隻已經活了一世紀的陸 彰化中區扶輪社 網頁編輯組，2010.10.04 2 龜，而這隻雄性的陸龜也似乎很樂意當媽媽。當小河馬被海嘯沖走而失 去媽媽的時候，牠的心靈一定遭受很大的創傷，所以牠必須找一個替代 品的母親。 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. 很幸運的，小河馬被沖回岸上的時候就碰到陸龜，而產生親密的親子關 係。牠們一起游泳，一起吃飯，還一起睡覺，小河馬總是跟在陸龜的後 面，就好像跟著媽媽一樣；如果有其他的動物接近陸龜，小河馬還會暴 跳如雷，就好像要保護牠的親生母親一樣。 彰化中區扶輪社 網頁編輯組，2010.10.04 3 The