Explain this!Best Buddies? [ILUSTRATION OMITTED] Last December, when the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. tsunami devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia, it also flooded the coast of East Africa. In Kenya, the forceful waves swept a one-year-old hippopotamus hippopotamus, herbivorous, river-living mammal of tropical Africa. The large hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, has a short-legged, broad body with a tough gray or brown hide. into the ocean, and then brought it back to shore. The dreadful ride left the 300 kilogram (650 pound) hippo motherless and dehydrated de·hy·drate v. de·hy·drat·ed, de·hy·drat·ing, de·hy·drates v.tr. 1. To remove water from; make anhydrous. 2. To preserve by removing water from (vegetables, for example). . Luckily, wildlife rangers rescued the animal, placing it in a protected park. There, the hippo--nicknamed "Owen"--befriended a 100-year-old tortoise. Rangers say that Owen looks to the tortoise as a mother figure: They swim, eat, and sleep together. Now thriving, the hippo may soon move in with a new stall mate: a lonely female hippo. |
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