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Remember the song "It's not unusual to be loved by anyone?"
記得這首歌嗎：「若有人愛上你，並沒什麼好稀奇的。」

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Not even Tom Jones would have imagined the blossoming relationship between two huge residents of a zoo in Kenya.
而即便是唱這首歌的湯姆‧瓊斯，也一定想像不到肯亞這座動物園裡兩頭大型動物日益親密的關係。

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Factoring their ages and you get a really wacky situation.
若把這兩頭動物的年齡考慮進來，牠們的關係就顯得更奇特了。

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Here's Jeanne Moos with the story.
吉妮‧莫斯為我們帶來以下這則報導。

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This is an odd couple that makes that other "Odd Couple" seem bland.
和這對怪怪伴侶比較起來，電影《天生怪偶》裡面的那對主角可就顯得平淡無奇了。

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Maybe you've heard about the baby hippo that fell for an aging tortoise in Kenya.
你可能已經聽過這個消息，肯亞一頭小河馬愛上了一隻老烏龜。

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And here's how they got that way. Just over a year ago, when a tsunami's waves hit Kenya's shore, Owen the hippo was separated from his family.
牠們的故事是這樣的。一年多以前，海嘯襲擊肯亞海岸，河馬歐文因此和家人失散。

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He had to be rescued by villagers using shark nets.
當時村民用鯊魚網才救了牠一命。

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They brought him to Heller Park Animal Preserve, where he made a beeline for Mzee the tortoise, even though the tortoise...
這些村民把牠帶到海勒公園動物保護區，結果牠一到那裡就立即愛上了烏龜梅茲，儘管當時這隻烏龜……

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...was hissing and rebuffing.
……一直以兇猛的態度不斷抗拒。

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But the hippo glommed on to the tortoise.
不過，河馬纏著烏龜不放。

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The tortoise relented and their cozy photos made them a world famous couple.
梅茲的態度後來總算軟化，於是牠們和樂相處的照片也就使牠們成為舉世聞名的伴侶。

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Now, Mzee and Owen sleep together. They wallow in the pond together.
現在，梅茲與歐文不但一起睡覺，也在池塘裡一同玩水。

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Owen tends to follow Mzee around like a love-sick dog.
歐文總是像小狗一樣死心塌地跟著梅茲到處跑。

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A two-year-old hippo and a 130-year-old tortoise -- 
一頭兩歲大的河馬和一隻一百三十歲的烏龜──

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their age difference puts even Michael Douglas and Katherine Zeta Jones to shame.
和牠們的年齡差距比較起來，麥可‧道格拉斯與凱撒琳‧麗塔‧瓊斯的老少配根本不足一提。

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I've seen Mzee put his head into Owen's mouth, and this is a hippopotamus that could crunch his head, but he doesn't.
我看過梅茲把頭放進歐文的嘴巴裡。這頭河馬一口就能咬碎牠的頭，但是卻沒有這麼做。

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They're extremely trusting of each other.
牠們完全信任對方。

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Dr. Paula Kahumbu is Heller Park's expert on the pair.
寶拉‧卡胡布博士是海勒公園裡照顧這對情侶的專家。

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They even munch on the same branch.
牠們甚至還會嚼同一根樹枝。

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Back when they first got famous, a then-six-year-old girl in New York saw pictures of the two and asked her dad if they could write a book.
牠們剛出名的時候，紐約一名六歲女孩看到牠們的照片，於是問爸爸肯不肯和她合寫一本書。

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Now, Scholastic is publishing it, a children's picture book.
現在，這本兒童圖畫書已經由 Scholastic 出版社出版。

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It's almost surreal what's happening between these animals, they're developing their own form of communication, which has really sort of baffled the scientists.
這兩頭動物之間所發生的現象實在難以置信，尤其牠們彼此發展出來的溝通方式，更是讓科學家百思不解。

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There are plans for Owen to be introduced to a female hippo named Cleo to teach him hippo behavior, because he's acting too much like a tortoise.
海勒公園打算讓歐文接觸一頭名為克莉歐的母河馬，好讓歐文學學河馬的行為模式，否則歐文的行為實在太像烏龜了。

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When Owen wants Mzee to move, he nibbles on his foot.
歐文如果要梅茲移動，就會輕咬牠的腳。

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Scientists say the amazing thing is that a cold-blooded reptile would warm up to a mammal.
科學家說，最讓人吃驚的現象，是這頭屬於冷血動物爬蟲類的烏龜，竟然會和一頭哺乳類動物發展出親密關係。

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Slow and steady doesn't just win the race, it wins the hippo.
可見，緩慢堅持不但能夠贏得龜兔賽跑，還能贏得河馬的心。