Some of you might remember that right after the tsunami in 2005, there was this kind of worldwide.

It was very contagious, a sense of the grief and the loss.

And then millions followed a very particular story about a hippo and a tortoise.

And I'm wondering how many of you followed that story, just out of interest here.

The millions didn't come from this room.

Okay, here's the story.

So there was a baby hippo that survived the tsunami and got washed into this coast in Kenya, but lost its mom.

And hippos are very social.

And so it became very interesting to the naturalists that it formed this bond with a centuries-old tortoise.

And it followed the tortoise everywhere, just the way it would, its own mother.

And there was a really deep bond.

And this was a real story.

I mean, this really happened.

They would eat together and sleep together and swim together.

And originally, you know, early on, the tortoise was bigger than the hippo that changed.

But they stayed really strong bond there.

And I was very captured by it.

And I get captured by all of these stories of cross species bonding.

And so there's this incredible, so what really is that?

What is it that really speaks to us?

And my sense is that we love to see love.

It's what we most cherish about humans.

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