8 Friendly Dogs Whose Pals Are Super Random. And Not Dogs.
Dogs, everyone knows, are man's best friend. But what if they've been befriending other species all along, too?
Plenty of animal odd couples, as a New York Times article published Tuesday notes, are half dog. That includes a wildlife park where dogs teach shy cheetahs to play:
It is probably no coincidence that many of the better-known animal pairings involve dogs, which have honed the art of cross-species communication through millenniums of having lived with humans. The dogs at the safari park, each housed with a cheetah, are adept at reading body language and take a dominant role with their feline companions - Donna J. Haraway, a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of "When Species Meet," suggested that the dogs function almost as "social psychologists."
Here are a few dogs and other animals who appear to be having a play date, by way of that modern-day Aesop called YouTube:
1. The dog and the tortoise(John Carter/youtube)
2. The dog and the one-legged chicken(Uzoouk/youtube)
3. The dog and the crow(MASSEUR1956/Youtube)
4. The dog and the elk(Linda Abbott/Youtube)
5.The dog and the lamb(KHQ6/YouTube)
6. The dog and the polar bear(BBC/YouTube)
7. The fox and the hound(Theworldvideos1/YouTube)
8. The dog and the piglet(Barcroft TV/YouTube)
This post has been updated to include information regarding the dog-cheetah relationship.