This has been blogged about a lot, but let me officially note it here: A baby hippo has adopted a 120-year-old tortoise as its mother. As Reuters reports:

Some people in Kenya rescued a dehydrated baby hippo that had been separated from its herd. The released it into an enclosure in a sanctuary, and it ran over to a giant tortoise, and is now “inseparable” say officials.

“‘When we released Owen into the enclosure, he lumbered to the tortoise which has a dark gray color similar to grown up hippos,’ Sabine Baer, rehabilitation and ecosystems manager at the park, told Reuters.”

I have nothing to say about this, other than … that’s the cutest thing I’ve seen in my life.

(Thanks to Boing Boing for this one!)