Tortoise adopts hippo

Kristine Cole from Zabbar, enjoys blogging, being alone and studying psychology. She is also sensitive about the welfare of animals. From Kristine's blog:

This morning the Times of Malta posted a small review that a 120 year old giant tortise adopted a 1 year old hippo. It almost brought tears to my eyes. There was even a small picture of this, and you can see the tortoise and the hippo near each other and looking into each other's eyes. And the human race is always saying that animals do not have enough brains to function like us humans. Is that the case? This is a debate ...which i challenge.

So the world, our world, the world me and you are living in is seeing so many killings and hatred that we stop and ponder ...hmmm. If we have have more brains than animals race does not seem to bother an animal ..then what is the problem that surrounds the human mind?? Sincerely the issue of race, colour, religion and ethnic beliefs bugs me so much these days ...you go onto a bus and because there is a coloured person you can see all the old ladies giving bad looks. One guy even preferred standing a 25 minuite bus journey rather than sitting next to a coloured person ...

And this brings me back to my opening comments friends ...sometimes i wish i was born a hippo or a giant tortoise ..maybe in that existence race is not such an issue.

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