Tuesday, 2 July 2019

'The nation's sweetheart': Thailand falls in love with orphaned baby dugong

Marium, who is five months’ old, was rescued off Thailand’s southern Krabi province after she was separated from her mother

She eats sea grass, drinks milk from a rubber glove, snuggles up to passing canoes and frequently beaches herself. But these idiosyncrasies have not stopped an entire nation from falling in love with her.

Thailand has a new national sweetheart – an orphaned baby dugong called Mariam.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2YoHWmd

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