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Happy News in May

Jun 11, 2020 | Blog, Karen's blog

Life here in the bush at Turgwe Hippo Trust has been interesting of late in that we now have a resident house hippo! Steve a young male of 2 years and nine months was chased out of the family pod at the beginning of this year. This was because his mother Relief was...

Baby Hippos Playing in the Wild May 2020

May 25, 2020 | Video Blog

Playing hippos in the wild Kai the older is just over one year of age and the baby not yet named is just over two months. The new calf is the 61st calf born since the Turgwe Hippo Trust was came about and Karen Paolillo began her behaviour study thirty years ago this...

New Baby Hippo Naming Draw – May 2020

May 8, 2020 | Blog, Karen's blog

Please enter the draw below so that you have a chance to win and name the new baby hippo. Send us a male and a female name and once we know the sex of the baby we will choose the name from the winning ticket. Your donation for this draw helps the Turgwe Hippo Trust...

2020 Happy New Year Turgwe Hippo Trust

Jan 10, 2020 | Video Blog

A VERY HAPPY HIPPO NEW YEAR to all TURGWE HIPPO TRUST SUPPORTERS. This video shows some of the Turgwe Hippos just being hippos. We hope it will bring you happiness and make this new year a good one for you and those who you love, be it human or animal or hopefully...

Hippos and Others Feeding Nov 2019

Nov 29, 2019 | Video Blog

Hippos and other animals feeding. A big thank to you to those of you to date who are helping to feed the hippos and other animals with your donations. This video of images not film is especially for you. I thank you with all my heart and send love and hippo...

Kuchek going to food Oct 2019

Oct 13, 2019 | Video Blog

Hippos Kuchek, Relief and Steve coming to the feeding station in October...

Feeding Hippos Sept. 2019

Sep 22, 2019 | Video Blog

Hippos feeding at night eating food prepared by Karen and Silos. Filmed and narrated by Karen...

New : Perpetual Auction on FaceBook to help the Turgwe Trust

Sep 17, 2019 | Blog, Karen's blog

Dear All a wonderful couple David and Jayne Shephard of the UK have just set up this auction page on facebook to help with feeding the hippos and other animals this year and with other needs for the Turgwe Hippo Trust in the future. Please go on to the page and either...

Bonbon hippo eating the food at night

Sep 3, 2019 | Blog, Karen's blog

So impressed with BonBon hippo. I started putting food out for them for this localized drought on Saturday. They are just under one mile from where I put the food but it is in the same place as I laid it out in 2016. 3 years later darling BonBon arrived...

Baby Kai and mum Tacha

Jul 26, 2019 | Video Blog

Two month old baby hippo Kai with his mum Tasha during Zimbabwe’s...

Name the new baby with your preferred birthname – Draw is done!

Jun 7, 2019 | Karen's blog

New baby hippo born around MAY 15 to MAY 18 th, mother is TACHA and father could be Tembia. It could quite possibly be a male as it is a large calf but we will have to be patient and wait to find out. You now have the chance to name this baby. I would suggest if you...

Herbert attacked by a crazed bull

Apr 12, 2019 | Blog, Karen's blog

Today we had a miracle in that I thought our head game scout (Herbert) was dead. He and Elijah went on patrol and at 7.am Elijah came home to tell me that they had been attacked by a buffalo. (Now only about 5 days ago, a man had been killed by a buffalo just about...