{"id":729,"date":"2010-10-18T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/?p=729"},"modified":"2012-06-27T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:27:32","slug":"the-orangutan-and-the-hound-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/the-orangutan-and-the-hound-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Friendship: The Orangutan And The Hound!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Best\u00a0friends, Surya the orangutan and Roscoe the Blue Tick hound dog, were recently featured on National Geographic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The orangutan was out for his daily elephant ride\u00a0when he spotted \u201ca worn-out old hound dog.\u201d They ran right toward each other and hugged like long lost best friends.<\/p>\n

Dr Bhagavan Antle, founder of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS), said:<\/p>\n

“Roscoe looked really thin and a little lost, so we fed him and took care of him.<\/em> He followed us through the gate and ran over and found Suryia. As soon as he saw Roscoe, Suryia ran over to him and they started playing. It was unusual because dogs are usually scared of primates but they took to each other straight away. We made a few calls to see if he belonged to anyone and when no-one came forward, Roscoe ended up staying.<\/em><\/p>\n

“They will spend a few hours each day together rolling around, swimming,'”<\/em>said Dr Antle.\u00a0“Suryia will take Roscoe for walks around the enclosure and even feeds him some of his monkey biscuits. When they are both feeling a little lazy they will go for a ride on the back of Bubbles, our 27-year-old African elephant.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The pair have now been together for two years\u00a0at TIGERS in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Orangutangs are almost extinct. View Suryia and Roscoe’s\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0 for more stories\u00a0on the pair and more information on the plight of Orangutangs<\/p>\n

True Friends<\/h2>\n

Suryia even takes the dog for his walks.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Long Live Friendship!!!!!!!<\/h2>\n

I don’t know……some say life is too short, others say it is too long, but I know that nothing that we do makes sense if we don’t touch the hearts of others…….while it lasts!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Best\u00a0friends, Surya the orangutan and Roscoe the Blue Tick hound dog, were recently featured on National Geographic.\u00a0\u00a0 The orangutan was out for his daily elephant ride\u00a0when he spotted \u201ca worn-out old hound dog.\u201d They ran right toward each other and hugged like long lost best friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,120,10],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-companion","category-relationships","tag-animal","tag-relationships","tag-thriving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":35371,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thriveinlife.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}