The guys over at the Wild Action Zoo in Victoria, Australia, recently arranged some adorable inter-species snuggling between Reuben, an eight-month-old baby kangaroo, and day-old emu chicks named Edi and Eli.
Photographer Jay Town captured the sweet scene, which shows the emus making themselves right at home, amusingly stepping over Reuben so they can get comfortable.
Edi and Eli came to the zoo via zoologist Chris Humfrey, who rescued the little creatures from imminent danger—feral foxes. “The father emu ‘Elvis’ would not have been able to protect the chicks from being eaten at night,” he explained to Buzzfeed. “Now these bundles of fluff sleep next to my fireplace… they all live quite happily together.”
Unfortunately these cuties won’t stay with Reuben forever. Once they’ve grown bigger, the siblings will be reunited with their parents.
(via MyModernMet)
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