That is very sweet, but thanks to this morning's newspapers - I have seen even sweeter since they are even more unlikely:
Dema, a 26 day old Sumatran tiger cub, finds an unlikely friend in Irma, a 5 month old orangutan, after the pair had been rejected by their respective mothers at an Indonesian animal hospital.
Inseparable: Irma the abandoned orang-utan puts a comforting hand around Dema the month-old tiger cub, before they both drift off to sleep
The deadly enemies who are the best of friends
In the wild they would be deadly enemies. In captivity they 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 of an animal hospital in Indonesia.
Nia and Irma happily snuggle up to the cubs in a way that five-month-old orang-utan sisters would never normally contemplate.
Likewise, Dema and his month-old sister Manis are quite content to snooze in the gentle embrace of their tiny guardians' arms.
Both pairs are bottle-fed by staff at the Taman Safari animal hospital in Java, and monitored constantly as they grow up side by side in what must be one of nature's most unusual foursomes.
So far the study has revealed that the apes like to swing from ropes and high bars in the nursery, while the cubs enjoy a cat-nap after lunch.
Sumatran tigers, which grow to 8ft long and can weigh up to 300lb, are an endangered species with only several hundred estimated to be left in the world. In their natural habitat of island forest and mountains, they might normally regard a baby orang-utan as a snack.
Meanwhile the great apes - also critically endangered - would more likely be looking down from the safety of their nests in the tallest trees of the rainforest.
They know something that the four unlikely friends have yet to learn - that away from the comfort of the animal hospital, and the warmth of their bizarre companionship, it's a jungle out there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...cc=picbox&ct=5
