Friday, September 14, 2007

From England with love

The following article was brought to national! attention by my pal KGMom:

It's dove at first sight
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
All together now: Awwwww

It's a tale straight out of Disney – an abandoned baby monkey, close to death, is revived by the love of a bird.
The 12-week-old macaque was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province, China, after being abandoned by his mother.
Taken to an animal hospital, he was weaned back to physical health but still showed little appetite for life.
It was not until a fellow patient, a white pigeon, took him under her wing and showed him love and affection that he perked up.
Now the two are inseparable, say staff.
They are not the first odd couple. In March, we told how a tiger cub in China was being raised by a sow along with her piglets because his mother didn't know how to feed him.
And in 2005 Mi-Lu the baby deer became best friends with lurcher Geoffrey at the Knowsley Animal Park, in Merseyside, after being rejected by her mother.
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Now how cute is that!?

5 comments:

Lynne at Hasty Brook said...

I'm usually really creeped out by monkeys but that little face makes my eart ache.

Fran said...

I am in love. This is amazing. My heart needed this beauty today... How I thank you dguzman. How I thank you deeply.

dguzman said...

I love his little dark hand on his mommy bird.

Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein said...

Off the scale adorable.

KGMom said...

So you loved the story too. Isn't it the cutest! My daughter sent me the original link--and I confess I was hooked!