Filed under: Hippolarious
Social Tagging: Animation • Video
Well, we may be deep in the middle of a recession and all, but here at Hippo Mojo, we are still stocking up inventory for your purchasing pleasure. Some recent additions include two new styles of trinket boxes.
Mother & Baby Hippo Trinket Box
This spectacular trinket box features a mother and baby hippo and is adorned with Swarovski crystals and high polished handpainted enamel with 24k gold plated trim. It’s generously large inside storage has room for a secret note, jewelry or trinkets. Comes in a satin lined gift box. Buy yours here.
Baby Hippo Trinket Box
This baby hippo sits on his haunches and roars for a parent or for his next meal. Made of swirling gray ceramic studded with rhinestones, his back and head open up to reveal a tiny area for a special trinket. He measures 1 1/2″ long. Check him out here.
WINE.
We are talking about WINE. You know, the wine with the cute little hippo on the front? What! You don’t know about this wine? Get yourself to a liquor store asap and buy some! It’s the official wine here at Hippo Mojo. Ever wonder why your purchases from our store come packed with corks inside? Now you know.
Fat Bastard Wines Screenshot
We now have new lampwork hippo earrings in! Lampwork is a type of glasswork that uses a gas fueled torch to melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass into hippo shapes. Well, okay, any shape. But who would want any other shapes? Not us!!! We only want HIPPOS!!!
Lampwork Hippo Earrings
The earrings are cute and fun and would make a great gift for any hippo fan on your list. Well, as long as they have pierced ears. Or other piercings. Anywhere. Hmm. Okay, let’s move on. We were only able to obtain very small quantities of these babies so get them now.
Filed under: Hippolarious
Social Tagging: Kenya • Video
Hippos aren’t the only ones to enjoy a relaxing day at the spa. Check out this National Geographic video of fish grooming a hippo in Kenya.
This sturdy clutch will hang from your wrist, tuck under your arm, or slide into another bag, all while organizing your keys, phone, pen, plane tickets, or other necessary items. Stuff it as full as you can – the indestructible Cordura™ nylon means it can stand up to heavy use for years to come. Each wallet is handmade in Seattle of 50% to 95% recycled materials, and has a unique combination of colors and stitching (which may vary slightly from piece to piece). Features include: 4 card slots, 2 large pockets for bills/coins/etc, 1 high security zippered pocket, and a wrist strap. It measures 5″ X 11″ and comes in four fun colorways.
Hip Hippo Four Square Clutch
Hip Hippo Four Square Clutch
Hip Hippo Four Square Clutch
Hip Hippo Four Square Clutch
Hip Hippo Four Square Clutch
Hip Hippo Four Square Clutch
Filed under: Places to Go
Social Tagging: Taxidermy
Just in case you have room in your home for a stuffed hippopotamus, read this story.
This Friday, April 17 & Saturday April 18, 2009, at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Ft. Worth, Texas, you can buy your very own stuffed hippo. I’m not talking some cute little stuffed animal that you can prop on the pillow beside you in bed. No, I’m talkin’ bout a real hippo head mounted on your very own wall in your very own house. That’s right, one of the items up for auction at the World Class Big Game Trophy Mount & Western Auction is a taxidermy marvel: a mounted hippopotamus.
John Brommel, organizer of the sale at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, said the hippo is one of 700 taxidermy mounts to be auctioned at the yearly sale. “It’s huge — one monstrosity of a piece,” Brommel said of the hippopotamus. “It probably weighs 700 pounds.”
The items come from the estates of several big-game hunters and the collections of two natural history museums and include a pair of 6-foot elephant tusks, a polar bear, grizzly bears, black bears, and a 15 1/2 foot marlin. Hundreds of small game animals are also available, such as badger, coyote, Arctic fox, cougar, beaver, and raccoon.
Now, is it just me or is it a little creepy to shoot animals for fun and then hang their stuffed bodies up on the wall? I’m not a rabid environmentalist or anything (well, I’m pretty sure I’m not rabid), but really. Ick. You wouldn’t do that to your grandmother, would you? Then why do it to an animal?
I can understand harvesting tusks from an animal that’s already dead, but let’s not go shooting things that we aren’t going to eat, especially hippos. And another point. How is it sporting to SHOOT A HIPPO? It’s not like they run away!!! They just float there in the water. It’s literally like shooting fish in a barrel. Not really something to brag about to your friends back home. “Dude, I shot a hippo out of a crowd of 30 of them. I snuck up on it in my Jeep and then got it, BAM, right between the eyes.”
I think it should be a law that if you want a stuffed and mounted hippo, you should have to kill it with your bare hands. Now THAT would be something to brag about.
Filed under: Zoo Watch
Social Tagging: Taronga Zoo • Video
I blogged about Monifa, the new baby pygmy hippo at the Taronga Zoo in Australia, back in December. Now I’ve found a video of her at 8 weeks of age, learning to swim. She’s so cute!
Wow, what a cute little pygmy hippo! Check out this video where he dances around the Basel Zoo in Switzerland.
Pygmy hippo Chico of the Heythrop Zoological Gardens in the UK has been off his feed lately. Zookeepers at the private zoo in Oxfordshire don’t know why Chico stopped eating, but they have learned how to get him to start again. A glove puppet of the hippo Gloria from the film Madagascar does the trick. Zookeepers found the puppet in a supermarket and now use it to feed Chico his favorite carrot treats. Says one keeper, “We were extremely surprised when he took a liking to Gloria and we have been using it to feed him ever since.”
For a photograph and the full story see WorldZooToday.com.
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