Archive for February 27th, 2007
Baby Orangutan & Tiger are the best of friends
Captivity does strange things to animals, but what’s happening at Taman Safari animal hospital in Java, Indonesia is outright remarkable!
They have four babies in their care who normally wouldn’t get along. From the Daily Mail article, “The deadly enemies who are the best of friends,”
“Two Sumatran tiger cubs and two baby orang-utans, each pair abandoned by their mother soon after birth, have become inseparable playmates in the nursery room…
Nia and Irma happily snuggle up to the cubs in a way that five-month-old orang-utan sisters would never normally contemplate.”
In the wild, both species are endangered and Sumatran tigers, “might normally regard a baby orang-utan as a snack.”
And now for the adorable photos:
P.S. Many thanks to Neatorama, for posting this!
Tarsier eating some sweet cricket chow
Funny how this video came up on one of my favorite blogs, because I’ve been meaning to talk about how tarsiers fit into the primate phylogeny.
But, I won’t get into that yet because this video of a little tarsier chowing down on some cricket is thoroughly entertaining:
