Unusual animal friendshipsBy Joan Morris | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: March 9, 2015 at 6:40 a.m.

National Geographic program features animal odd couples. Jan. 13, 2011— -- There are some friendships that defy explanation. One of nature's fiercest cats isn't supposed to fall for a good ...

Jewel the lamb went 18 hours in the freezing cold without milk before he was taken in by the 4-Legged Friends animal sanctuary in rural Bulgaria and “adopted” by Mirka the dog. Image: WENN 8.

A one year-old baby Hippotamus, Owen, gets close to his adopted 'mother', a giant male Aldabran tortoise at Haller Park on Kenya's coast of Mombasa, January 6, 2005. A 120-year old giant tortoise ...

News Weird News Animals Beast of friends: The most unusual (and cutest) pals in the animal kingdom A giant Mastiff and a tiny pooch, a chimp and a tiger and a monkey and a pig are just some of the ...

Bea, a three-year-old giraffe, and Wilma, an ostrich, have become the best of friends at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida Credit: PA Eight-month-old orphan elephant Themba, whose name means 'hope ...

The saying goes: Birds of a feather flock together. But sometimes animals form the most unlikely and adorable friendships. Like Bella and Tara. Carol Buckley told CBS News when elephants come to ...

These young animals may be unlikely friends, but they really do odour each other. Lion cubs Annabelle and Lester immediately took to baby skunk Peanut when he was orphaned at six weeks old.

A giant Mastiff and a tiny pooch, a chimp and a tiger and a monkey and a pig are just some of the weirdest - and most adorable - BFF's of all time ...