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Title: Hippos give trapped duckling a helping snout at Netherlands zoo
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URL Source: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/06 ... oo/4861433852955/?spt=hs&or=on
Published: Jun 9, 2015
Author: Ben Hooper
Post Date: 2015-06-09 09:20:28 by Tatarewicz
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, June 9 (UPI) -- A duckling trapped on the embankment of a pond at a Netherlands Zoo escaped with a little help from its friends -- a pair of hippopotamuses. A visitor to the Rotterdam Zoo -- locally known as the Diergaarde Blijdorp -- filmed the small duck repeatedly attempting to jump from the embankment to the shore, but falling short of making it over a short barrier. The footage, posted to YouTube, shows the duckling is soon joined by a pair of hippos, which appear to startle the bird as it attempts to avoid the much larger animals. However, rather than make a meal out of the duckling, the hippos use their snouts to the give the baby duck a boost and help it to reach the shore and reunite with its mother Poster Comment: Shows that hippos have cognitive ability. Would make interesting pets if weren't so big.
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#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Animals are better than people, even though lots of people would helped the duck too. It's true critters fight and kill each other, but none has ever invented an A-bomb or bought a Michael Jackson record. "After climbing a tree in the middle of the Yukon forest, I looked into a squirrel’s nest and found a pup that clearly did not belong there. It was older and larger than the others in the litter. My research team and I collected DNA from the whole litter and later, back at the genetics laboratory, the mystery was solved: We determined that the larger pup had been adopted by an older sister after its mother had been killed by a predator." http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_kindness_of_squirrels "I collected DNA from the whole litter" -- I'm afraid to ask.
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