9 CRAZIEST Friendships Between Animals And Humans!

Hi, it’s Katrina! From a penguin who travels across the world to visit the man who saved him, to a polar bear sleeping in the house, here are nine amazing and unusual friendships between wild animals and humans. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 9. The Wolf Man Shaun Ellis is an English animal researcher whose formal training started at the Wolf Education and Research Center in northern Idaho. During his time there, he gained acceptance into a wolf pack and lived among them. He also learned how to identify individual pack members and realized through his observations of their behavior that wolves are highly intelligent and intuitive creatures with complex social systems. 8. The Crocodile Cuddler You’d think that “Crocodile” and “Cuddle” don’t really go together. In Costa Rica in 1989, a fisherman named Gilberto “Chito” Shedden discovered a distressed male crocodile on the banks of the Reventazón River. The emaciated animal was reduced to just 150 pounds (70 kg) and was near death. A cattle farmer had shot him in his left eye, rendering him both injured and helpless. 7. The Man Who Raised A Lion Frikkie Von Solms is a retired lion caretaker who lives in South Africa. In 2004, when he was still working, he rescued a cub named Zion, who was born into captivity and separated from his mother due to a fear that the feline’s father would kill him. 6. The Visiting Penguin In May 2011 on the Brazilian island of Ilha Grande, which is located near the mainland city of Rio de Janeiro, a retired bricklayer named João Pereira de Souza came upon a penguin. It was a Magellanic penguin covered in oil who could barely move. He cleaned and fed the bird, whom he named Dindim, and monitored his condition for several days. 5. Pals With A Polar Bear Mark and Dawn Dumas are bear trainers who own and operate a menagerie and training facility called Beyond Bears Inc. in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, near Vancouver. One of their animal actors is an 800-pound (362.9 kg) polar bear named Agee, who has starred in high-budget commercials and movies. 4. The Controversial Conservationist British businessman and conservationist John Damian Aspinall runs the John Aspinall Foundation, an organization his father started and which focuses on releasing captive-bred gorillas and other animals into the wild. Aspinall wants to close all zoos -- a vision that has sparked a lot of controversy over the years. Most experts believe that after spending a certain amount of time in the care of humans, an animal cannot survive in nature -- especially if they were born and raised in captivity. 3. Baby Elephant To The Rescue Derrick Thompson is the co-founder of the Save Elephant Foundation, which runs Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He’s especially close with an elephant he rescued as a calf named Kham Lha, who absolutely adores her caretaker and has even accepted him into her herd. When she first arrived at the sanctuary, Thompson made it a point to show her love and help her heal from her mental anguish. 2. The Hyena Man Abbas Yusuf lives in the ancient city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia. Every night, a pack of spotted hyenas roams the streets in search of food, and every night, Yusuf gives them scraps of meat, which they calmly take right out of his hand. Would you be brave enough to feed a wild hyena?? 1. The Real-life Mowgli Tippi Degre was born in Namibia in 1990 to French parents who were freelance wildlife photographers and filmmakers. She spent the first ten years of her childhood living fearlessly among southern Africa’s most dangerous wild animals and even befriended many of them, including an elephant, leopard, ostrich, and a giant bullfrog, as well as meerkats, lions, giraffes, chameleons, and snakes -- just to name a few. #unusual #friendships #originsexplained #katrina