Chester Zoo in the second decade of August 2025 has welcomed a pair of tiny golden lion tamarins, named George, seven, and Leaf, 12. (Phoot by Chester Zoo)

A woman walks into the ocean as a sea lion makes its way to the beach in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

In this Thursday, October 3, 2019 photo, a female black bear sleeps with its tongue out high up in a Ponderosa pine tree near Clark Fork School in the Rattlesnake neighborhood of Missoula, Mont. The bear's cub, not pictured, was snoozing on a nearby branch. (Photo by Tommy Martino/The Missoulian via AP Photo)

Performer and artist Aoi Yamada and film director Makoto Nagahisa perfom on stage during a conference at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France on June 21, 2023. (Photo by Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

A lion cub wakes in the morning sun at the Zimanga private game reserve in South Africa on April 9, 2022. (Photo by Calvin Kotze/Animal News Agency)

Visitors watch a California sea lion at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park on Thursday May 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

A Palestinian employee sprays antibiotics on a newborn lion cub at Nama zoo in Gaza City, Saturday, August 13, 2022. Three one-day-old lion cubs were put on display inside a cardboard box Saturday at a Gaza City zoo. The lioness gave birth five days after Israel and Palestinian militants ended a fierce round of cross-border fighting that saw thundering Israeli airstrikes and Palestinian rocket fire. (Photo by Fatima Shbair/AP Photo)

A 500-pound lion and an 11-pound dog have formed an unlikely friendship, proving that cats and dogs really can get along. Bonedigger the lion and Milo the dachshund live together at Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Park in Wynnewood, Okla., along with three other dogs. The puppies were introduced to Bonedigger in 2008 when he was just a 4-week-old cub.