Friendship Facts

Owen, a baby hippo orphaned by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, formed an unlikely bond with Mzee, a 130-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise at a Kenyan wildlife sanctuary. The pair became inseparable, sleeping, eating, and playing together for years.

Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.