link The video below shows some fascinatingly odd animal behavior that I've never heard of before: baboons stealing stray puppies from their mothers and raising them as part of their troop. This kind of interspecies interaction where one species raises another species specifically for companionship and protection--in other words, keeping pets--is behavior that is typically attributed only to humans. To see it happening with baboons and dogs is nothing short of amazing. Warning, the beginning is a little difficult to watch, as a male baboon very undelicately kidnaps a stray puppy, but keep watching, it's worth it. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/U2lSZPTa3ho" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Wow. Pretty cool. There was a documentary on PBS about animal oddball relationships like this : http://video.pbs.org/video/2300668052 They showed a goat that led a blind horse to its favorite feeding grounds everyday and then walked him back home. There was another one where a lion raised a baby gazelle in the wild.
As Cesar Millan the great would say: "They're just reading each others' energy" Edit: That was aimed more at the PBS documentary link
Are they really keeping them as pets, or just living among eachother? http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...c-mystery-do-wild-baboons-kidnap-puppies-pets
Yeah, I've seen the baby gazelle lion one. It was amazing, and I damn near teared up on that one. The OP is really strange, and pretty cool. I guess liking pet dogs is pretty normal and basic instinct.
