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Top 10 Strangest Animal Couples! From the real life Jungle Book to a lion who adopted her prey…stay tuned to number 1 to hear about the strangest animal couples!
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From the real life Jungle Book to a lion who adopted her prey…stay tuned to number 1
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to hear about the strangest animal couples!
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Number 10: Shere Khan, Baloo And Leo.
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How amazing would it be if The Jungle Book came to life?
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Well, it sorta did at a Georgia animal sanctuary.
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Believe it or not, a lion, a tiger and a bear grew up together and managed to become the
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best of friends.
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Their story starts out pretty sad but ends happily ever after.
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The three wild animals were owned by a drug dealer who mistreated them for years.
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Their owner was eventually arrested, but not before Baloo, the bear, needed surgery to
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remove a harness that was stuck to him from years of neglect.
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Fortunately, the surgery went perfectly and all three animals were able to stay together
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at the sanctuary.
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Today the trio live happily at Noah’s Ark Animal Sanctuary in Georgia.
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Despite their differences in species, the three get along great and are enjoyed by the
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visitors on a regular basis.
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Number 9: An Orangutan and Hound Dog.
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There are few similarities between dogs and monkey.
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Hair?
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Fur?
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Okay, so, that’s about it.
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But when an orangutan and a hound dog found each other, nobody expected the duo to make
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friends, yet somehow, they did.
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In 2006, a conservationist named Doc Antle, owner of an animal sanctuary in Myrtle Beach,
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South Carolina, found a stray dog near his property.
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When the dog followed him home, and after he made a few phone calls to see if anyone
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was missing a dog, he figured he would just keep him as a pet.
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However, the dog instantly took a liking to an orangutan on the property.
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Doc kept the dog and allowed him to play with the orangutan whenever he wanted.
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Turns out, they wanted to play all the time.
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The two still live at the sanctuary and are inseparable from one another.
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No one is really sure why, but Doc sure doesn’t mind two of his pets getting along, even if
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they are wildly different from one another.
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Number 8: A Buck And A Duck.
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Nothing seems like a better combination than the rhyming duo of a buck and a duck.
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But could this pair ever work out?
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Wouldn’t the buck just wait for the bird to leave her eggs behind and enjoy a snack?
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Well, luckily deer aren’t carnivorous.
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When these two met in Buffalo, New York, they became instant friends.
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To make things weird from the start, this goose lived in a cemetery in Buffalo where
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she laid her eggs.
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The only problem was that she didn’t seem to have a mate to help her take care of the
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eggs.
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That’s where the buck comes in.
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A deer wandered into the cemetery and started watching guard over the mother goose and eggs.
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Even after the eggs hatched, the buck stuck around to protect the family and became the
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new dad in a way.
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A strange combination, the buck and the duck became local celebrities due to their odd
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friendship.
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Number 7: An Elephant And A Dog.
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Size can be a definite issue when it comes to animal friendships.
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After all, if one can easily crush the other, the friendship is likely to fail.
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But size means nothing to this elephant and dog duo from Tennessee.
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In fact, these two mismatched animals love to play, eat and even sleep near one another.
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Conservationist Carol Buckley, owner of an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee, came across
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a dog one day while walking near her property.
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She noticed that the dog really took a liking to the farming equipment nearby.
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When she brought the dog home, the fascination with all things large continued the moment
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she met one of the elephants.
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What’s even more amazing is that the elephant took to the dog just as much.
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Despite the size difference, the elephant treated the dog like her own child, carefully
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stepping around her wherever she went and playing with her all the time.
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When the dog got hurt, the elephant even held vigil near the house while the dog recuperated.
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Carol Buckley has no idea why these two like each other so much, but she doesn’t mind one
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bit.
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Number 6: An Elephant And A Sheep.
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Speaking of elephants, they don’t just take to dogs all the time.
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They also can make friends with sheep.
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Who knew, right?
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How or why this happens we’ll never really understand.
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Themba the elephant was very young when his mother passed away suddenly.
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He was brought to an animal sanctuary in South Africa where conservationists helped him to
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join a new family of elephants.
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At first, they needed to transition him into his new environment, but also needed him to
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interact with someone at the sanctuary.
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When they put a sheep in his pen, they became instant friends, surprising the keepers and
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visitors.
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Unfortunately, Themba passed away from an intestinal issue before he could be released
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into the wild.
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On the plus side, he had a good time living with his sheep friend and the other elephants
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at the sanctuary for a while.
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Another example of unique friendships forming in the animal kingdom.
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Number 5: A Cheetah And A Dog.
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Dogs and cats should never get along.
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At least, all the cartoons say so, right?
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And this should be the case between dogs and big cats, too.
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In this case, a dog and a cheetah never got the memo because these two managed to become
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best of friends.
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At the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio, a dog and a cheetah happened to come together and immediately
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took a liking to one another.
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They are part of a program designed to help teach farmers in Africa how to train dogs
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to protect livestock rather than attack.
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Somehow, a cheetah managed to find its way to the dogs in the program and instantly became
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good friends with one of them.
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No one is really sure why these two are so close.
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They do everything together, from playing to eating and everything in between.
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However it happened, these two prove that the classic dog versus cat story doesn’t always
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have to be a thing, even if the cartoons say so.
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Number 4: An Old Turtle And A Hippo.
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Turtles and hippos rarely ever hang out.
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Usually they don’t even meet.
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But when circumstances allowed it this time, it led to a wild friendship that nobody saw
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coming.
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In 2004, when a tsunami hit near Indonesia, it sent waves as far as the west coast of
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Africa.
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Unfortunately, it also swept away a family of hippos, all except the youngest who was
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later rescued and brought to an animal sanctuary.
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That’s where he met a friendly old tortoise, about 130 years old to be exact.
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Both animals became friends right away and even inspired a children’s book about their
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unique friendship.
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Today they live with their own species at the sanctuary, but they will forever be remembered
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for their unusual pairing and unique circumstances that brought the pair together.
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Number 3: A Snake And A Hamster.
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Okay, this matchup should never happen.
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But it did.
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Although snakes usually eat mice and not hamsters, this should have ended as a happy feast for
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the snake, but instead it led to a friendship for both animals.
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A snake at a zoo in Tokyo, Japan was not eating the frozen mice it was given by the zookeepers,
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so they tried offering him an exciting live snack in the form of a hamster.
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To their surprise, he didn’t eat this meal either.
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Instead he began to play with it, and it played back.
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The unique pair became a bit with the guests of the zoo and so they were allowed to stay
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together.
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They still live together in the same pen at the zoo and the snake now eats regularly,
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but luckily not his friend.
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Let’s just hope that the snake doesn’t suddenly change his mind about his furry roommate.
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Number 2: A Lion And His Humans.
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It’s not every day you find a lion cub at a department store, but that’s exactly what
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was there in 1969 London when Ace Bourke and John Rendall adopted a lion cub.
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The big cat, named Christian, was an immediate part of the family for the two.
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As the cat got bigger, they tried their best to take care of him, but it became too hard
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given the limited space of their home.
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They had to let him go, so they contacted a conservationist in Kenya.
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Transporting the cat to Africa, they were able to get him acquainted with another lion
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family who took him in.
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But Bourke and Rendall missed their friend, so a year later they traveled to Kenya for
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a visit.
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Not knowing what to expect, they managed to find Christian and he leaped right up to them,
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knowing exactly who they were.
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The story made worldwide news years later, and proved that animals make a deep connection
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with us, just as we do with them.
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Number 1: A Lion Adopts Her Dinner.
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Certain species should not get along at all.
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And how this friendship happened, no one really knows.
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When a lioness and an antelope took a liking to one another, nobody knew what to think.
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At an animal sanctuary in Kenya, a lioness named Kamuniak happened to befriend an antelope
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that was meant to be her meal.
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It seemed cute at first, but after a while neither animal would eat near the other, so
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it posed a problem for both animals.
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The animals were separated and eventually Kamuniak learned from other lions how to hunt
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antelope and joined in.
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However, she would go on to befriend a few more antelopes in the area, refusing to attack.
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A very strange combination that had not been seen at the sanctuary and was not seen again,
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but it warmed the hearts of everyone on staff.
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Tell us what you think about these amazing animal couples in the comments below and…take
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care!
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