Culture Buzz His name is Prince Harry and I am incredibly jealous of this zookeeper. Not fair. (via zooborns.com)
Culture Buzz Sue Shefman really loves hippos. Hippo-mobile aside, the Texas native owns more than 920 hippo-related items. And that, my friends, is pretty crazy. (via abcnews.go.com)
Culture Buzz As the poor sap who was mauled to death by his pet hippo unfortunately found out, hippos are not cute and cuddly—they are 5 ton murder machines. The hippopotamus is not a pet, it is nature's morbidly obese psychopath.
Culture Buzz So that makes this video especially creepy and oozing with tragic irony. Marius Els was a farmer in South Africa who had raised Humphrey the hippo since it was a baby. Els' body was discovered last week, ripped apart by the hippo's razor sharp teeth. The fate of the hippo remains unknown.
This is insane and I hope it never becomes a fad. From the TV documentary An Idiot Abroad, Karl Pilkington visits a South African woman who has managed to tame, pamper, and raise a hippo into her household pet.
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/20/12-foreign-objects/
All ingested by Pablo Escobar's pet hippopotamus.
Celebrity Buzz Even people who can afford to buy their own zoos love going to the zoo!
Everyone remembers the Three Wolf Shirt that was all the rage a few weeks ago, but now a new shirt has arrived on the scene, and it takes things to a whole new level.
Forget all the cute, in perhaps not the most kind act toward animals, this camera catches a snake regurgitating it's dinner: A HIPPO.