With all the depressing news of gorillas being slaughtered and primates being brought closer to extinction, I wanted to share this photograph of an abandoned baby macaque, who was taken in by an animal hospital in Goangdong Province, China. He was very lonely until he made friends with a white pigeon.
In many cultures, the white pigeon or dove, is a symbol of peace and hope. It seems like this little birdy brought a lot of hope to this little macaque… two are now inseparable, and make for an awfully adorable friendship.
Read more about their heartwarming story over at the Daily Mail.
P.S. Doesn’t this remind you of the baby orangutan and tiger friendship?
6 Comments
September 24, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Aww! How cute! I could never imagine a Macaque and a pigeon being so close!
October 13, 2008 at 1:37 pm
[...] posts of all time, here at Primatology.net, have been the cute-overload-esque ones, such as the baby macaque and white pigeon friendship and the orangutan and Sumatran tiger bond. Similar to the latter story, a new one has [...]
November 17, 2008 at 7:28 am
What kind of macaque is this?
November 20, 2008 at 3:54 am
It looks like a Rhesus macaque. There are two species that occur in Guangdong province: Tibethan Macaque (Macaca thibetana) and Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta). The story on Daily Mail reports it was found on the islands to the east, which leads me to believe it’s Rhesus.
February 27, 2009 at 3:38 am
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February 28, 2009 at 8:59 am
very nice picture, i like it.