A Hippo Love Story – the Book

A Hippo Love Story – the Book

A Hippo Love Story A new book by Karen Paolillo of the Turgwe Hippo Trust A story that is not only about a woman’s passion and love for the hippos but how her determination and focus have kept these animals alive and safe, faced with everything that Africa can...
A beautiful horse Shandy April 2014

A beautiful horse Shandy April 2014

Karen Paolillo takes a couple of days off for the AGM of the Turgwe Hippo Trust in Harare, followed by a forgotten pleasure. Riding the most beautiful horse, Shandy, an Arab palomino. Then a visit to Tiki Hywood Trust to see Lisa Hywood and Ellen, meet Nia the Cape...
A Hippo Love Story – now available

A Hippo Love Story – now available

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

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

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

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

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...