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1 Late in December 2004 near the town of Malindi in Kenya,
heavy rains flooded the Sabaki River. Rushing waters swept
a herd of hippopotamuses into the Indian Ocean. Before the
townspeople could urge the hippos out of the salty sea and
back into the river, disaster struck. On December 26 a
tsunami slammed into the East African coast. Only one
hippo survived—a 600-pound baby.

2 Rescuers found the hippo stranded on a reef the next
day and brought the orphan they’d named Owen to a
wildlife sanctuary. There, something unusual happened.
According to head scientist Dr. Paula Kahumbu,
“Exhausted, confused, and extremely frightened, Owen

immediately ran to the safety of a giant tortoise.” At first,
130-year-old Mzee (mzay), whose name means “old man”
in Swahili (swah-HEE-lee), didn’t know what to make of the
baby hippo who cowered behind him and followed him
around as if he were a mama hippo. But it didn’t take long for
the tortoise and the hippo to become constant companions.

cowered If an animal cowered, it crouched or bent down in fear.

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