When released nationally by Columbia Records, the song shot to the top of the charts and the city zoo acquired a baby hippo named Matilda.

He developed and wrote the screenplay for an animated feature about the true story of a tortoise who befriends a baby hippo after the 2004 tsunami.

A baby hippo and a 130-year-old tortoise become friends; a true story.

In Kenya, a baby hippo, separated from its mother by the tsunami, was taken to a wildlife refuge, whereupon he immediately bonded with a 130-year-old giant male tortoise.

(Ages 4 to 8) It sounds like a folk tale, but the story of the abandoned baby hippo who found unexpected companionship with a 130-year-old giant male tortoise is all true.

Or the 100ft Canadian totem pole, the two baby hippos and the bars of Dog Soap?

A baby hippo rested its plump chin on its mother's substantial back.

"And where do you think you're going, baby hippo?"

They give birth to baby hippos in the water, too.

A female hippopotamus is called a cow, and a baby hippo is called a calf.