Hippos

The Hippopotamus spends their day lying in the water, with oily secretions helping protect the skin from the sun. ..so maybe they are slick...and the babies secrete a pink squishy liquid..so maybe a lil squishy........

Hmmmm - I just realized that I have forgotten to feed my hippo for the last week!! Hopefully Kaz remembered for me......Poor Poor Hippo (yes, yes - very original name, eh??)

Hippos are pretty aerodynamic, I wonder what their freefall speed is... they'd probably fall upside down, too

I've expeirmented with my hippo launcher, and yes they do fall upside down. as for their free fall speed i am clueless cause they keep taking out some kind of parachute before i can measure it.

Foster a Turgwe River Hippo


Although hippos are not yet an endangered species, their numbers throughout Africa are steadily declining due to pressure from human encroachment on their habitat, siltation of rivers and hunting. Their need for permanent bodies of water makes them vulnerable, especially as many of Africa’s rivers are slowly drying up.

The Turgwe River hippos live in an area designated as a wildlife conservancy. Control and management of their habitat can thus be assured. The Turgwe River here in the southeastern Lowveld of Zimbabwe, once perennial – now flows only during the rainy season. The creation of deep, dry season pools, through building of weirs within the river course, safeguards the hippo’s existence. During the horrendous drought of 1991/92, we kept the Turgwe hippos, 13 in number, alive through artificial pan and water troughs, for the river eventually dried up completely. Since then 18 hippo calves have been born, all leading a natural life with their families, there are now 31 hippos back in the Turgwe River system. This river used to be home to over 80 hippos in years gone by. By fostering one of the hippos in the two study groups, you will help us to implement a number of projects, which will ensure the long-term well being and survival of the Turgwe hippos.

Since the Trust was formed, we have built a second pan, had two boreholes drilled and cased, bought all equipment to run the boreholes to the two pans, and are at present repairing an old weir that was broken in the 2000 floods. We need to build more weirs, possibly other back-up pans, to be ready for another drought. It is our wish to save hippos sentenced to be culled elsewhere in Zimbabwe for having become “nuisance animals” by raiding crop lands and posing a threat to humans, in built-up areas and farming lands. We will translocate the hippos to the safety of the Conservancy. Later we wish to start an educational programme to teach local school children the importance of hippos to the ecosystem. This on-going study of these hippos also needs support. In the long-term we hope to help hippos throughout Zimbabwe.

By fostering a hippo, your contribution will help us in our plans to safeguard their lives. All you have to do is:

Choose one of these hippos in the study group. In return we will send you:

*A fact sheet about hippos
*Two newsletters/updates during the year about your hippo
*An original ethnic print tee-shirt with hippos on it
*A colour photo of your hippo
*A personalised fostering certificate
*A newsletter about the Turgwe Hippo Trust

Your initial contribution will cost US $55 (This includes registered postage and packaging).
We will invite you to renew your fostering one year after joining.


FOSTERING APPLICATION Mr/Mrs/Miss………………………………………………………………………
Postal Address…………………………………………………………………….
Zip Code.................................................................................................................
Phone......................................................................................................................
Please send me a t-shirt: small/medium/large/extra large. (Delete inappropriate)

I would like to foster…………………………………(Name of hippo)

I am enclosing my one year contribution of US$55 paid by either personal cheque or traveller’s cheque. Please make the cheque payable to Turgwe Hippo Trust, printing your name on the back. (If more than one person wishes to foster a hippo, please add a separate sheet of paper with the relevant details).

WE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR SUPPORT

TURGWE HIPPOS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

Robin Territorial bull

Tembia Young bull (born June 1993)
Blackface Mature mother of Cheeky, Three, Flood, Brucie and Inonde

Cheeky Young mother of Rain, Storm, and Mvura

Storm
Son of Cheeky, born 5.1.97
Kuchek

Son of Mystery, born March 2001
Mystery
Young mother of Fen and Kuchek


Brucie
Daughter of Blackface, born 25.4.98


Inonde
Daughter of Blackface, born 30.1.2000
Hope
Daughter of Cheeky, born February 2002

Wish Mature mother of Flame,Trust, Libra and Pavodok

Pavodok Son of Wish, born 25.2.2000

Surprise Young mother of Kubi and Climber


Climber
Daughter of Surprise, born 25.3.2000

Abe Mature mother of Surprise,Odile and Tacha
Tacha
Daughter of Surprise, born 1.1.2000
Sabi

Daughter of Surprise, born February 2002


The Turgwe Hippo Trust thanks you in advance for supporting one of these hippos. Without your help these hippos would not have a good chance of further protection and conservation.

Trustees: Rolf Chenaux-Repond, Karen Paolillo, Sibilla Doppelfeld, Jean-Roger Paolillo.

Where's Bobo?

You people are insane. I just checked the first hippo post... it was posted on april 6? Jesus, that was almost a month before I joined!

Yeah, we were tired of the "Pro/Anti War" threads, Darwin started a wonderful thing :^D

And that was back when he would disrupt events with the "Rocket on the head" trick... Yep... that used to be annoying

What rocket on the head trick?
I didnt know Dar used to be a griefer.

Not really a greifer, per se... he just REALLY liked his rockets...

You attach a rocket to your head, then click it... if you increase the force, you fly into the air

Heh, so thats where the crazy 3 million meters space thing came from.
I've done it myself a few times but I just flew up in the air quietly, dunno what was so annoying about it back then =)

It used to just explode, and not lift him off of the ground, and he made it so it didn't derez, and people just kept clicking it. I guess it wasn't REALLY his fault...

Oh, and hippos, hippos, hippos

LOL
You just foiled my plan to hijack this thread with my un-hippo-ness! MWAHAHAH! I shall have my revenge! You havent heard the last from me! Ill be back! Back I say!

I think we've already officially hijacked half of the threads on this page, Eggy

Best fun I ever had in the forums dio.
Usually I just sit around refreshing the damn webpage waiting for someone to post something =)
Thank you.

Yeah, that happens to me sometimes...

Right now I'm in school, pretending to work, so... I'm good for another hour of forum fun...

*cough* hippo *cough*

hehe, awesome

Awesome dudes. I haven't checked for a long time....


Oh and by the way, about the rocket on the head thing, I wasn't a greifer, just a n00b And also Eggy you can click "Active Users" in the forums home (bottom) to see who's on and who's doing what, so the f5 key won't wear out quite so fast

Awesome ACII art guys. Err.. Eggy (since Eggy is diffrent from "guy) Just kidding Egginator

Out of curiousity, where did you get those ACII drawings EggY?

I just searched google and found a huge website with ascii art for everything you can possibly imagine.

I never said you were greifing, I said you were annoying... you must've lost the message in there somewhere

keep your eyes peeled for yours truly and my newest aquisition..the HIPPO 1..a fine sailing vessel hand made by Harald Nomad....you cant miss it..it has a giant HIPPO on the sail!!!!!! WOOHOOOOOOOOOO

What would you do if your arm started attacking you?

Erm... in a hippo-y way...