A Hippo Love Story – now available

A Hippo Love Story – now available

Apr 2, 2014 | Karen's blog

A Hippo Love Story – now available A preview look at my new book “A Hippo Love Story” to give you all an idea of what to expect. Her biography on agent’s site : Karen Paolillo was born in Hertfordshire, UK, but has been living in the African...
Squiggle the Slender Mangoose

Squiggle the Slender Mangoose

Mar 31, 2014 | Blog, Karen's blog, Portfolio

The Turgwe Hippo Trust is not just about the hippos. The Trust has many other wild animals living around us such as elephants, lions, hyenas and many antelopes and smaller mammals. Squiggle was found by myself and Jean-Roger lying under a tree with her umbilical chord...
Squiggle the Slender Mangoose

Squiggle the Slender Mongoose

Mar 31, 2014 | Karen's blog

Squiggle the Slender Mongoose The Turgwe Hippo Trust is not just about the hippos. The Trust has many other wild animals living around us such as elephants, lions, hyenas and many antelopes and smaller mammals. Squiggle, the slender mongoose, was found by myself and...
Baby hippos playing. Banky and BonBon, March 2014

Baby hippos playing. Banky and BonBon, March 2014

Mar 19, 2014 | Karen's blog

Wednesday 19th March. Some happy photos for you of Banky hippo playing with his friend BonBon. Banky is still a baby and suckling milk; he turned a year old last November. BonBon had just finished suckling and she turns three years of age this April. I went down to...
Kiboko grooming a croc

Kiboko grooming a croc

Mar 16, 2014 | Blog, Karen's blog, Portfolio

Kiboko grooming a crocodile. I have seen this behaviour on a regular basis and believe the hippos groom the crocodiles for a couple of reasons. The area they choose to groom is normally the tail or along the ridge on the top of the croc’s body. In those areas...
Cheeky and her calf

Cheeky and her calf

Mar 16, 2014 | Blog, Karen's blog, Portfolio

Cheeky and her two month old calf. Hippo mothers, like any mum, are very protective of their babies. When a calf is about five to six weeks of age the first hippo allowed contact with the new baby is the bull. Often the bull is the father, but not always. The next...

Name the baby hippo

Mar 11, 2014 | Karen's blog

NAME THE BABY HIPPO   The Turgwe Hippo Trust is having another raffle, this time for you to enter and have the chance of naming a new baby hippo.  The calf is the son or daughter of Relief and I believe Kuchek the young male is a first time father. The calf was...
Feb. 16th – The first baby hippo of 2014.

Feb. 16th – The first baby hippo of 2014.

Feb 16, 2014 | Karen's blog

Relief has given birth to her first calf.  I last saw her on January 21st without a baby then the Turgwe River came up in flood and all of the hippos moved to quieter areas.  The game scouts found on the 10th February just one kilometer upstream from Hippo Haven the...
What happened during Year 2013?

What happened during Year 2013?

Jan 2, 2014 | Featured, Karen's blog

2013 was a pretty harsh year for the hippos and other wildlife in our area. A localized drought, stemming from rains that fell in one large amount and then petered out, saw us without any grazing for the animals dependant on the Lowveld grasses. Browse on the trees...