Owen and Mzee
Natural disasters are terrible and needless to say, take the lives of many innocent people and animals when they strike. We all see and read about a tsunami for example on the news, but we rarely see how animals are affected by the disaster. Believe us, they hurt them just as much as they do people.
That’s why it was such a special story when rescuers were able to find this baby hippo named Owen after a devastating tsunami destroyed its natural habitat. They took it back to their reserve, where Owen met a hundred-and-thirty-year-old turtle named Mzee. The two became like father and son and were inseparable ever since.