Unlikely Friendships

It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ”

Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways.

• A cat and a bird.
• A mare and a fawn.
• An elephant and a sheep.
• A snake and a hamster.

The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee.

And almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending prey—an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf.