A six-month-old yellow baboon, right, holds a three-month-old bush baby in the animal orphanage at the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, June 10, 2011. The six-month-old female yellow baboon abandoned by its family in Maralal in Northen Kenya, is taking care of the three-month-old bush baby, that was also abandoned by its family in central Kenya. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)– An abandoned bush baby and a yellow baboon have formed an unlikely companionship at an animal orphanage in Nairobi.
The six-month-old female yellow baboon abandoned by its family in Maralal in Northen Kenya, is taking care of the three-month-old bush baby, that was also abandoned by its family in central Kenya.
Charles Musyoki, a senior scientist for species and conservation at the Kenya Wildlife Service, says it is likely that the animals formed the bond in order to cope in the new environment at the animal orphanage.
He says the union between the two species is a rare occurrence that was last recorded in Kenya in 2002, when a lioness adopted a young oryx — a large antelope that lions normally hunt_ and nurtured it.
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