SukritiKoko And Her First Kitten
On one Christmas, back in the 1980s, Koko, whose favorite book is “The Three Little Kittens” and “Puss ‘n’ Boots,” asked for a kitten as her Christmas present. “But we gave her a life-like stuffed animal and she was terribly upset,” recalls Ron Cohn, a biologist. However, Koko was smart enough to know the difference and denied playing with the toy and kept indicating how sad it was! Soon, on her next birthday, she was allowed to choose a kitten and she adopted a gray and white kitten and named her ‘All Ball’. Cohn recalls, “The cat was a Manx and looked like a ball. Koko likes to rhyme words in sign language.” Both were on National Geographic magazine’s cover that month. Sadly, soon All Ball died and Koko was left disheartened.
Lipstick
Koko later got a new yellow cat whom she named as “Lipstick” but she too died after some time. And Koko, who adored her kittens a lot, was left alone. Koko, after Lipstick’s death, got a cute gray-tailless cat whom she named ” Smoky”, who lived with Koko over many years. She passed at her old age due to natural causes in 2004. Koko, who used to love kitten like a mother stayed kitty-less for many years after that. But that wasn’t it for her as now she was about to get a bigger opportunity.
Now Two Of Them!
In 2015, Koko got to chose ‘Miss Gray’, while ‘Miss Black’ chose Koko. Koko who showed the least interest in making close relations with other male Gorillas and hence had not become a mother till her 40s even, seemed to get connected with these kittens very closely.
Cunning Reply
She cared and pampered them just as she would’ve to her own baby gorilla! A funny famous incident about the innocence of Koko took place when she unintentionally broke a sink vase and when she was asked who did it, she blamed one of her kittens for it! A human-like nature and such a tricky yet friendly gesture, indeed!
Koko and Bubbles aren’t the only two, we’ve more on the list awaiting!
A BFF Trio
Who says one can have only one best friend? Not just humans tend to have a BFF group at times, also there’s an amazingly unique trio of three different species animals living together since their childhood.
While a drug raid in 2001, 18 years ago, three wild babies were rescued from terrible circumstances, from a drug dealer’s home in Atlanta who kept them in cages under his house. The three are famously known as BLT, a trio of Baloo the American black bear, Leo, the lion and Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger has been inseparable at the Noah’s Ark Animal Sanctuary in Locust Grove, Georgia. How the three stick together in bad times is inspiring!
Inseparable
All three of them were malnourished. Leo, the lion was restricted in a cage that was too small, he even had an open infected wound on his nose. Baloo’s condition was more serious, tied with a harness that was never loosened as he grew started growing into his flesh. The poor cub then had to undergo a surgery to get the harness removed and to get his severely infected wound cleaned. The one time Baloo was separated for the surgery, the two cubs showed anxiety. Later on, all three were brought together and were never separated for next 15 years until one sad day when one of these brothers left.