At the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium, a small family of orangutans has befriended a group of Asian small-clawed otters that swim through the river snaking throughout the zoo’s orangutan enclosure—and photographs taken of the budding friendship between the two unlikely species is absolutely adorable.
Pairi Daiza Zoo spokesperson Mathieu Goedefroy explained in an interview with CNN that the orangutans have to be kept entertained and challenged at all times, and part of the zoo’s program to ensure that happens involves permitting the otters to swim through the enclosure’s waterway.
