i love when hippo’s do this.

http://static.flickr.com/55/144183177_60c6e099b9_o.jpg

AAaaahhhhh, Sterling is cute.

Your think this is cute????

Check out my kitty: http://www.zxocuteboy.com/2006/06/sterling-slepping-in-my-bag.html

Thanks for the information about the song, Dara–the odd thing is I heard it as a kid on a record my folks had by a group called Serendipity. I’m perfectly willing to bet it was a cover version.

A bold hippopotamus was standing one day,
on the banks of the cool Shalimar…
He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay
By light of the evening star…

(can’t remember the rest of that verse)

(And then later in the song all the hippos decide to jump in the river… can’t recall the first half of this verse, but–)

They dived all at once, with an [can't recall word] splash,
Then rose to the surface again
A regular army
Of hippopatami
All singing this haunting refrain…

Repeat chorus!

Btw, Hippo whiskars = awesome

Such an awesome picture. A shame they’re vicious, dangerous brutes

WhHAT a great photo!!!!

I think I like the pic ’cause it reminds me of my hairless cat, Flannery. She’s the same color as Hippo, and she also has the completely truncated whiskers common to hairless cats. So, when she gives me extreme kitteh close up kisses in the morning, this is kind of what I see.

Maybe those are transceiver antennae. It’s Sea Sputnik!

I’m sorry to say, but this picture kind of grossed me out. I think it’s the gargantuan hair folicles.