When zoo keepers put a goat into a hungry Siberian tiger’s enclosure, they didn’t expect the two to be together for long — but now they’re roomies.
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Instead of cowering and becoming the tiger’s next meal, the goat asserted his power and chased the big cat aggressively, showing him who’s boss.
Despite being served up for Amur the tiger’s lunch in a Russian zoo, this little goat had other ideas.
“He’s kicked the tiger out of his ‘bedroom’ and is sleeping on Amur’s bed for the fourth night.”
No kidding.
A keeper at the Eastern Safari Park in the Shkotovsky district of Primorsky Krai told the Siberian Times, “We named the goat Timur [the famous Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire] out of respect for his bravery.”
The goat seemed so fearless that Amur “decided not to go to the trouble of hunting Timur.”
“We think the goat never came across tigers and no one taught him to be scared of them,” the keeper explained.
You can watch the unlikely “friendship” unfold in the video below:
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