Suriya the orangutan with his BFF, Roscoe, a hound. Photo: National Geographic
You may have seen them on Youtube, but now in "Unlikely Animal Friends," the National Geographic channel explores these six unusual animal bonds in depth with extensive footage, interviews with the animals' owners and commentary by experts.
Perplexing as the unlikely friendships are, they illustrate the "ability of animals to feel complex emotions," says one expert on the show. Love and compassion, it seems, are not solely the domain of humans: witness other inter-species videos such as the fawn who bathes a cat and the dog who befriends a duck.
The one-hour program, "Unlikely Animal Friends," premieres this Saturday, September 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic channel.
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This is an awesome video!!! They are so cute together. I know for a fact my 3 cats would attack the crow, they sit in the window chattering and staring with their tales twitching at all the birds that visit the bird feeders to eat. Sometimes I think they are going to go right through the window to get the birds...
This a long with many others I saw on Miracle Pets
on Pax TV.They also showed people pet saving
their owners lifes cat,dogs,pigs,& birds.
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I had a cat about 20 years ago that was "friends" with all of our doves. We had six breeding pairs of ring necks in an outdoor coup when a storm destroyed it. The doves never left the property though and began nesting in our hanging plants that were on our patio. When the babies would leave the nests, we always feared the cat would get them because they were no longer contained, but she never did. What was really amazing about it though is that this particular cat was an avid hunter. She would only eat the food we put out when she couldn't catch her own dinner on her own. Yet, I have pictures of her drinking from a bowl with two doves perched on the lip of that same bowl. She never "hunted" our doves. She would curl up and sleep next to them. She would play with them, like the cat in the video above. I didn't have a video camera or I would have filmed her too, but I do have plenty of still photos showing the same thing with the doves that stayed on our property. It really is a sight to see...a sort of "lion laying down with the lamb" sort of thing. In fact, I used one of the photos for a homemade Christmas card one year with that theme.
On October 16th, National Feral Cat Day, Collage Books will publish an illustrated children's book titled "Cat and Crow: An Amazing Friendship" by Lisa Fleming. This beautifully illustrated book is based on the true story of the stray kitten and the wild crow that saved her. It is available at Barnes & Noble. It's a great book - thought you'd like to know about it.