This gallery will prove that animals are capable of feeling compassion and love just like we are. These pictures will melt your heart—they are so adorable you’ll look twice at them. These unusual animal friendships will show you that they are far more emotionally complex than many of us.

Check them out—you will be enchanted! 

1. Bubbles the African Elephant and Bella the Black Labrador

2. Bea the Giraffe and Wilma the Ostrich

3. Tinni the Dog and Sniffer the Wild Fox

4. Torque the Dog and Shrek the Owl

5. Fred the Labrador and Dennis the Duckling

6. Mabel the Chicken and the Puppies

7. Milo the Dog and Bonedigger the Lion

8. Cat and the Fox

9. Shere Khan, Baloo and Leo

10. Mani the Wild Boar Piglet and Candy the Dog

11. Kasi the Cheetah and Mtani the Labrador

12. Rabbit and Deer

13. Suryia the Orangutan and Roscoe the Blue Tick Hound

14. Kate the Great Dane and Pippin the Deer

15. Anjana the Chimpanzee and Tiger Cubs

16. Watson the White Dog, Kiko the Brown Dog, Harry the Cat and London the Hedgehog