Yeah, the long-awaited first German post is put off again --- and for what else but animals, in this case, Orangutan babies and Sumatran tiger cubs that have bonded at an Indonesian zoo now that they're all orphans.
In the nursery the young animals share, they paw at each other, take naps curled closely together and have yet to get violent with each other.
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This is, of course, an extremely impermanent relationship.
It's funny in a lot of ways - not only would this never happen in the wild, but it's a relationship with an instinctual time limit. Just as handlers can only control tiger cubs to a certain age, when the predator in them drives out the playfulness, the orangutan-tiger friendship expires quickly.
It makes me think of our own childhood relationships. As someone who moved around a few times, my long-term friends don't start until late elementary school. Maybe if I stayed around those friends from preschool and kindergarten days, I would have driven them away by bearing teeth and flexing claws.
Not all animals can remember their earliest friends; maybe the rest don't care too.
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