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Hot hippo gets stuck in water

An overheating hippo was so desperate to cool down that he climbed over the side of a 3m (10ft) water tower for a nice long soak.
However, after happily splashing around for a while, the mammal found it could not get out of the pool and was well and truly stuck.
Luckily, a farm worker noticed water spilling over the side of the concrete container and spotted two enormous nostrils poking out of the tank.

He immediately rang for help and, within hours, rescuers arrived at the farm in Alkmaar, just outside Nelspruit in South Africa.
Equipped with a hydraulic crane and a cage, hippo hunter Chris Hobkirk and his team from the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Association set to work. In a four-hour operation, they drained the tank and used poles to gently nudge the hippo into the 3m-long (10ft) steel cage before winching it to safety.

Mr Hobkirk – who has rescued more than 180 stranded hippos in the past six years – said it was a tricky procedure but he was glad with the outcome.
'Maybe we got lucky with this one. In the past, I have removed hippos from small dams. In those cases, the water levels have always been much lower so this was different.'
Although this hippo went to extreme lengths to cool down it is by nature a semi-aquatic animal.
They usually stay in water all day until stepping on to land at dusk to graze.

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Confused Dog

Emma was a bit confused by the fact that she was watching our cat on the computer.
At one point she actually goes over to see the cat in her box to make sure she is really there.

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Why Eat Vegetables when there is Chocolates

A bear that was apparently craving something sweet broke into a home in San Bernardino County and devoured a box of chocolates that was in the refrigerator.
A couple in San Antonio Heights arrived home on Saturday afternoon and found the bear in their kitchen, said Sheriff's Sgt. Tom Alsky. They immediately called for help.
The bear had gone by the time sheriff's deputies arrived.
The animal appeared to have pushed aside vegetables in the couple's fridge in favor of a two-pound box of chocolates, Alsky said.
He said the bear also tried to open a bottle of champagne, but was not successful.
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Dog eats passport; Student Forced to Stay Home

Student's trip to Peru thwarted when dog nibbles Passport

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Twenty minutes before Jon Meier was set to depart for a long-anticipated trip with his North High Spanish class to Peru, his mother delivered some bad news: the dog had eaten his passport. Actually, the dog didn't eat the whole thing. "He had chewed a little bit off the corner," said Meier, 17, who just completed his junior year at North. "The only thing you could not see was a few numbers. Other than that it was pretty much intact. A square centimeter or so was really all that got taken off of a corner." For safe keeping, Meier had placed the passport in a waist band designed to be worn inside the shirt so pickpockets have a harder time lifting money or documents. The waist band was on a table when their dog Sunshine, a 1-year-old golden retriever, grabbed it. The waist band was borrowed from a friend and the different smell may have aroused the dog's curiosity, Meier said, noting that it is ironic that a device intended to protect the passport may have been the reason it was damaged. Sunshine also chewed up some cash, he said. Still, Meier left that day, June 16, for the 12-day trip.
The students took a bus to Chicago O'Hare International Airport, then took a connecting flight to Miami. Airline officials in Chicago had no problem with the cornerless passport. "The Chicago airport said it was fine and they let me fly to Miami with the group," Meier said. "In Miami, after we had already had a flight delay, we started to board and they wouldn't let me on. "They said that Chicago shouldn't have let me come down in the first place," he said. Authorities told Meier it didn't matter that most of the passport was intact and legible. "Mutilated was the word they used," he said. "They knew it was a group trip. They weren't able to take that into account. It still wasn't by their code." Officials at the Miami airport told Meier that if they let him out of the country with the damaged passport, he would have trouble getting back into the U.S. His Spanish teacher, Chico LaBarbera, intervened on Meier's behalf, but the airline officials wouldn't let the student continue on the trip. While a plane left with the group, Meier took a flight back to Chicago, where his parents picked him up at 4 a.m.
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