After a weekend of discussing all the hate and intolerance surrounding the U.S. Presidential campaign, I just couldn’t go to bed without doing something to help cleanse our collective palate of the distasteful business. And so, let me point you to some cute pictures and a story in the Daily Mail that will help you feel all warm and fuzzy again…for a few moments.
When two white tiger cubs were born during a hurricane they had to be separated from their mother after their sanctuary flooded. However they have since found an unlikely surrogate mother in chimpanzee Anjana, who has taken on the role of caring for the cubs….
The two-year-old chimp has been helping keeper China York care for the 21-day-old cubs at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina.
‘Mitra and Shiva, were born during Hurricane Hannah,’ said Dr Bhagavan, founder of TIGERS. “During that time everything flooded in the sanctuary and they had to be moved into the house as their mother became stressed.
‘It was important for their safety that they were separated.’
Placed into the care of infant animal care giver China and her chimpanzee companion, Anjna, the cubs have become almost inseparable from their new motherly figures. [Link]
There are a lot more cute pictures embedded in the article.
Cute, but let’s hope this doesn’t go down the same road as Knut, the polar-bear cub in Berlin.
aw, thaz awsim.
Cleanse our what now? Palates or pallets? Been pallin’ around with Palin, have ya?
What about this story? http://itn.co.uk/news/99fb5c3e8eeacbfbee00ca7981bc2808.html
This chimp who got the tiger as birthday present is adorable too…
well, it’s not a Unicorn chaser, but it’s still pretty cute 🙂
VERY cute. good for Bhagavan–he is now the SECOND Yogavillian to make it into SM. I’ll leave you to guess the first.
isn’t it spelled palette?
i would like to cleanse my palette of palin.
Doh! Fixed.
Pallets, Palates, Potatoes, Potattas, and so on. Give the guy a break. It’s in the jeans or is it genes ? It runs in the family folks. Live (or is it leave) with it, as long as you get the message. Now you know why Abhi never won any spelling bees or is it beeeyeees in Texas!
Monkeys!!!!!!!!!!
🙂
awwwwwwww!!!!!!!! animals aren’t racist… the monkey is black the tiger is white…
I feel like huggin’ too.
SO cute, and I don’t even like monkeys.
in 6 months, we’ll be discussing monkey tikka masala
manju, give us warm and fuzzy, not warm and chewy. kay?
Here we have Anjana the monkey and Shiva & Mitra the tiger cubs. But China the zookeeper. Bandar-sher behen-bhai.
The name “Dr Bhagavan” had me picturing him as a bald headed uncle
To my surprise, Dr Bhagavan looks like a Desi Fabio
17 · Pagla said
another surprise for the SM community–white people have sanskrit names too! (and yes he got it from a Tamil swami, but that’s a different story)
Tell the story, please.
19 · bess said
will do so on my pitiful blog at a later date. Telling that story would entail telling my own (which i’m not quite ready to do). Here’s a good start.
Is it the same blog from your days as mm? I sure liked the vintage photo on that blog. Thanks for the yogaville link. I’ll be patient for the stories.
11 · lostone said
Now that you mention it, that’s true. Now if only humans can consistently do that, without the political and peer pressure…
super cute, thx abhi 🙂
i always get my super cute daily fix at http://www.cuteoverload.com