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Oh, man. This story is fantastic. Reuters reports:

A 120-year-old giant tortoise living in a Kenyan sanctuary has become inseparable from a baby hippo rescued by game wardens, officials said on Thursday.


Next time we're in LA, we're totally gonna team up with our 'industry' obsessed brother and pitch this to Pixar.

We see Robert Evans doing the voice of Mzee the tortoise and Brett Ratner as Owen, the baby hippo. Together, they go on the journey of a lifetime and discover the most important thing in the world: friendship.

It'll be called Creature Feature and will have original songs by The Frogs and, of course, Tortoise.

Coming soon to a multiplex near you!
Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Kenyan Sanctuary [Reuters, Yahoo, via boing boing]