Featured Video: Horse and Baboon are Besties
By now, you’re probably used to seeing horses fraternizing with a pretty wide menagerie of fellow barn-dwellers: cats; dogs; goats, etc. But the social group in this video from Barcroft TV is a bit more exotic. At the Eden Monkeyland and Birds of Eden Sanctuary in South Africa, horses and baboons live side by side.
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That is pretty cool! I loved it!
It's all about friendship! Humans can learn a lesson here!
Friends come in all colors, shapes and sizes!
WOW talk about strange friendships! But they are cute for sure!