Awkward Friendships

pigs

2011-10-03T10:23:00.000-07:00

A stray wild boar cub captured by farmers gets civilized in a hogpen with pigs in Lantian County of Shaanxi Province, China

a capybara carries a squirrel monkey

2011-10-02T10:22:00.000-07:00

A capybara - one of the world's largest rodents - carries a squirrel monkey on its back at Tobu Zoo

Knock knock knock

2011-10-01T10:19:00.000-07:00

friendly

2011-09-30T00:17:00.000-07:00

Somehow that dog looks a lot more ferocious than the actual wild animal in the relationship

adopted cub

2011-09-29T10:17:00.000-07:00

Bessi and her adopted cub

motherly (next)

2011-09-28T10:15:00.000-07:00

Alsatian dog Mao Mao acts as a surrogate mother to five tigons, nursing the new-borns at Wuqiao Acrobatics Performance Zoo, Hebei province, China

motherly

2011-09-27T10:13:00.000-07:00

They may naturally be enemies but that didn't stop this motherly dog from adopting an unusual little one - a kitten

Watch Your Tail

2011-09-26T13:30:00.001-07:00

Best friends: Rabbit & Deer

2011-09-25T10:12:00.001-07:00

Best friends

2011-09-25T10:11:00.000-07:00

Who says a sheep and an elephant can't be besties

snuggle

2011-09-19T02:44:00.000-07:00

Eleven-month-old 'Midget' the miniature pony snuggles up to Jemelda' at Hoddles Creek

on the roof

2011-09-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

Play together

2011-09-07T21:54:00.001-07:00

Rabbits and kittens play together all the time at the North Shore Animal League

Guardian

2011-09-06T11:57:00.000-07:00

Different

2011-09-03T11:55:00.000-07:00

Surprise?

2011-08-31T13:01:00.001-07:00

Hang onto the back

2011-08-31T12:59:00.001-07:00

Miwa the baby monkey hangs onto the back of beau, Uri-bo, a baby boar

Cuddle

2011-08-29T12:57:00.000-07:00

These furry frenemies cuddle up for a little cat and dog bonding

What could be cuter

2011-08-28T12:56:00.000-07:00

What could be cuter than a pair of newborn piglets just hanging with their pal

Beds buds

2011-08-28T12:54:00.000-07:00

Cattle dog Clarence and an alpaca named Cindy
have been beds buds since they were 3 months old

Now this is love

2011-08-23T10:59:00.000-07:00

One of Budapest Zoo's barbary macaques searches for fleas in the fur of a
barbary sheep in Budapest, Hungary

Get on the Horse

2011-08-22T11:59:00.001-07:00

Affection

2011-08-20T12:02:00.000-07:00

Koko, the famed 230-pound gorilla who converses in sign language,
was known for her affection for her kitten. Shown here in 1985

Hangs onto the back

2011-08-16T12:28:00.000-07:00

Miwa the baby monkey hangs onto the back of beau, Uri-bo, a baby boar

cared

2011-08-10T11:57:00.000-07:00

This wild monkey, a long tailed macaque, has adopted
an abandoned ginger kitten and cared for it as his own