Baboon adopts chicken

Tue Sep 18, 2007

A lonely baboon in a private Lithuanian zoo has adopted a chicken he saved from certain death last month and the two have formed a fast friendship, the zoo's director said.

The chicken was intended as food for other animals in the zoo, but escaped and was sheltered by Mitis, a six-year-old Hamadryas Baboon, Edvardas Legeckas, who runs the zoo near the port city Klaipeda in western Lithuania, told Reuters.

Mitis has been fed chicken meat before, but this time he fell in love with his food, Mr Legeckas said.

"He plays with the chicken, cleans its feathers, sleeps with it, and takes care as if it was his own baby child," the zoo director said.

"But I am not sure how long this affair would last, because baboon may finally realise this is food."

- Reuters

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[dehbee]

i feel sorry for the chicken, and the baboon. that cage sucks...and baboons are social. it probably feels lonely and bored so it adopted a chicken for its own entertainment.

[Snapple130]

what's sad here is that the poor baboon is so fucking lonely it's needed to bond with its food for companionship. let it go! now that would be a heart warming fucking story.

[Dazladferretman]

shows how close primates behave like humans,when i have no one around i find my self from holding spiders to walking and playing with my dogs, the baboon is taking on the role of looking after the chicken just as you or me would a pet.

[SeamusCallan1]

This my chicken, his name is George. I'm gonna love him, and pet him, and clean him, and........GEOOOOOORRRGE why you not move, George? Geoorrrrrrrrrrge?

[JADEAV]

Hey feed the chicken!! It has no seeds for it!!! Baboon keeps carrying it around without letting it eats something. It seems hungry and weak! Why did you feed the alive chicken to baboon??! You moron!!

[elliotjmiller]

this wouldn't happen in a country with any sense or moral.

[Raelsatu]

@tawnyfawn I don't really think so, I just think humans have a wider range of emotions; an individual can show/feel boundless love, or they can demonstrate incredible hate. I know there are some truly evil people in this world, but I'd like think the connection between those of us who only live to love, is one of the most magical things in existence. When you see animals acting this way, it really makes you contemplate the differences/similarities between them and us.

[tawnyfawn]

Animals are more humane than humans.

[figandolaf]

This is so sad. He's even grooming the chicken. It's not right that he is so alone.

[zeitgeistry]

love chicken! i hope the baboon will not eat this chicken...

[NixFaerie]

that poor chickens probably just like, "WTF IS GOING ON!?!?!"

[SSWarrior77Channel]

Man that zoo sucks,in the zoo in my city there is an entire huge area for baboons. there is an entire troop of Baboons there and the environment there looks like their natural habitat with a glass barrier so we can view them. Poor Baboon....