Furtherman
09-17-2007, 08:07 AM
There have been two odd animal pairings recently.
First, a 12-week-old macaque and a white dove. You've probably seen the cuteness.
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09/monkeypigeonUPPA_450x300.jpg
The 12-week-old macaque was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong
Province, China, after being abandoned by his mother.
Taken to an animal hospital, he was weaned back to physical health but
still showed little appetite for life.
It was not until a fellow patient, a white pigeon, took him under her
wing and showed him love and affection that he perked up.
Now the two are inseparable, say staff.
Now, there is another one.
Baboon adopts a chicken at Lithuanian zoo (http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL1479022.html)
A lonely baboon in a private Lithuanian zoo has adopted a chicken he saved from certain death last month and the two have formed a fast friendship, the zoo's director said on Friday.
"He plays with the chicken, cleans its feathers, sleeps with it, and takes care as if it was his own baby child," the zoo director said.
"But I am not sure how long this affair would last, because baboon may finally realise this is food."
Sooner or later nature will take over - who will be eaten first?
The monkey's dove or the baboon's chicken?
First, a 12-week-old macaque and a white dove. You've probably seen the cuteness.
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09/monkeypigeonUPPA_450x300.jpg
The 12-week-old macaque was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong
Province, China, after being abandoned by his mother.
Taken to an animal hospital, he was weaned back to physical health but
still showed little appetite for life.
It was not until a fellow patient, a white pigeon, took him under her
wing and showed him love and affection that he perked up.
Now the two are inseparable, say staff.
Now, there is another one.
Baboon adopts a chicken at Lithuanian zoo (http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL1479022.html)
A lonely baboon in a private Lithuanian zoo has adopted a chicken he saved from certain death last month and the two have formed a fast friendship, the zoo's director said on Friday.
"He plays with the chicken, cleans its feathers, sleeps with it, and takes care as if it was his own baby child," the zoo director said.
"But I am not sure how long this affair would last, because baboon may finally realise this is food."
Sooner or later nature will take over - who will be eaten first?
The monkey's dove or the baboon's chicken?