120-year-old tortoise adopts baby hippo!
Some people in Kenya rescued a dehydrated baby hippo that had been separated from its herd. The released it into an enclosure in a sanctuary, and it ran over to a giant tortoise, and is now "inseparable" say officials.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20050106/sc_nm/kenya_hippo_dc

again, via Boingboing.
If you read Fark.com, Boingboing.net and a couple of other blogs, there's probably not much reason to read this one... =/