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Baboon adopts chicken at zoo

We haven’t had a story of unlikely animal pairings in The bdaily for a while, so today we bring you one from Lithuania. A lonely baboon in a private Lithuanian zoo has adopted a chicken he saved from certain death last month. According to the zoo’s director the two have now formed a fast friendship. The chicken was intended as food for other animals in the zoo, but escaped and was sheltered by the six-year-old Hamadryas Baboon called Mitis, reports Reuters.

Mitis has been fed chicken meat before, but this time he fell in love with his food, said Edvardas Legeckas, who runs the zoo near the port city Klaipeda in western Lithuania.

Legeckas said: “He plays with the chicken, cleans its feathers, sleeps with it, and takes care as if it was his own baby child. “But I am not sure how long this affair would last, because baboon may finally realize this is food.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .