An edition of A hippo love story (2014)

A hippo love story

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An edition of A hippo love story (2014)

A hippo love story

When the threads that hold human society together unravel, the animal kingdom suffers. Karen Paolillo discovered this first-hand in Zimbabwe when she developed a close connection with thirteen hippos in their natural habitat, the Turgwe River. Her mission to save these exceptional animals after they came under threat of drought, land invasions and poachers developed into a beautiful African love story. It is also the stirring tale of how one woman faced personal and financial adversities while ensuring the survival of a family of hippos, with Bob, a three-ton bull, as their leader. With the establishment of the Turgwe Hippo Trust, Karen has triumphed as guardian of the hippos, and the animals have prospered ever since. A Hippo Love Story shares this heroic journey of a nature lover who became an ally of one of Africa's most fearsome animal species.

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Language
English
Pages
218

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A hippo love story
2014, Penguin Books (South Africa)
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Table of Contents

Setting up camp and meeting the hippos
Lion man George Adamson and romantic fate
Birth of a baby hippo
Hippos and crocodiles
Drought, death and a plan
Saving hippos and other animals
Hippo fights and problems
Rain and new life
The Turgwe Hippo Trust
Hunters and heartbreak
The flood
The land invasion begins
Violence becomes part of everyday life
Bob
An accident waiting to happen
Poachers and police
Mobs and madness
Hippo happenings and change
Blackface and Five
Bob's family tree
Thank you from Karen.

Edition Notes

Published in
Parktown North, Johannesburg, South Africa
Other Titles
woman's fight to protect a hippo family

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
599.635
Library of Congress
QL737.U57 P36 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
218

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL30866507M
Internet Archive
hippolovestory0000paol
ISBN 13
9780143539056, 9780143531531
LCCN
2015494537
OCLC/WorldCat
889821574

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL22960123W

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