Volunteer : Jenny Cookson-Teall, UK, August 2010

Volunteer : Jenny Cookson-Teall, UK, August 2010

My love for hippos began in 1991 when I saw the Silentnight hippo and duck advert on TV and the soft toys they produced. For those of you who haven’t seen it, they show the hippo lying on the bed in sexy blue stripped PJ’s, next to a very small yellow duck. The bed...
Volunteer : Cary Martin of UK, November 2007.

Volunteer : Cary Martin of UK, November 2007.

I’d  listened to Karen’s lectures, read her newsletters, looked at the photographs and watched the DVD, but none of this had really prepared me for the feelings of sheer wonder that I felt when I first set eyes on a group of hippos lying nonchalantly in the...