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‘Fearless’ goat meant for lunch forces tiger into friendship

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It can be hard sometimes to make friends. When you’re alone and fenced off from the world 99 per cent of the time, that feat is all that much harder.

A Siberian tiger named Amur living in a Moscow safari park decided not to let its enclosure get in the way of happiness, choosing instead to form a bond with a goat named Timur.

A YouTube video shows the two in the same enclosure. Timur didn’t know to fear for life when it saw the tiger and instead of taking flight, the goat chased the tiger from its own sleeping quarters.

Since then, Timur is reported to regularly sleep where Amur used to, forcing the mighty feline to take up a new spot on top of a shelter.

The Primorsky Safari Park said they decided to name the fearless Timur in reference to a child from a popular Communist-era book.

“It’s a fitting name for such a fearless animal,” the park said.