
This couple is inseparable, a baby
hippo and a
tortoise have found love. They have to be the strangest couple ever, but they eat, sleep, swim and play together. The funny thing is that they are almost the same size, the baby
hippo is still little and the
tortoise or land turtle tend to get pretty big.
Hippopotamus amphibius, commonly known as a Hippo, with the English colloquial name being derived from the Greek which means "water or river horse". The Hippo's association with the mouths of rivers more than likely led to them being called "sea cows or seekoeie" which has been adopted in Afrikaans and "ingulube yamanzi" in Zulu.