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Suryia and Roscoe – a special friendship

This story came to me a few weeks ago via a friend’s email.  So I did a bit of digging to get the full story.

Suryia is an Orangutan and Roscoe is a a Blue Tick Hound.  They live together at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina, where they met in 2008 when a thin Roscoe followed caregivers back to the reserve.

The two became fast friends and now have a book about their story.

When you purchase it from their website, proceeds go to support wild orangutan conservation in Borneo.

Ordinarily, dogs and primates don’t mix but this pair proves an exception to that rule!

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