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A Hippo Love Story – The Book
May 7th, 2014, A Hippo Love Story, book written by Karen Paolillo is published. You can order it from this web and get a personal dedication. Read this awesome story.
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 bush for the last two...
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 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
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 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 quite a...
Cheeky and her calf
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
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.
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...
New Turgwe Hippo Trust merchandise, BonBon and Maxie ornament
All hippo collectors and foster parents of BonBon and Maxie hippos see the new ornaments that my friend Suzie Marsh has just finished. Her animal sculptures are bought by Royalty for recently Prince Harry purchased two of her elephant sculptures. Now you can buy her...
What happened during Year 2013?
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 was sufficient for elephant, kudu and giraffe but for a hippo there just was not enough food to last the year.
Exciting news : Karen Paolillo’s book to be published by Penguin South Africa- June 2014
Wonderful news.
On WORLD ANIMAL DAY I signed a contract with Penguin publishers South Africa for my book “working title” A HIPPO LOVE STORY-TURGWE HIPPO TRUST to be published.
They expect it out by September 2014.
I will keep everyone up to date.