Have you seen this? Forget fox and the hound, bring on monkey and goat

A little goat emerges from the forest with a surprise friend in tow.

A little goat emerges from the forest with a surprise friend in tow. (Buitengebieden, Twitter)


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I've seen a lot of unexpected friendships among different animals. The fox and the hound. Little cats and big dogs. Bambi and Thumper.

But the pairing in this video was a little surprising.

When the goat emerges from the forest, I thought it was all alone. Then, surprise! It has a little monkey friend.

At first glance, the white monkey holding onto the goat's neck blends in, but then it reaches for a handful of berries, and the peak cuteness begins.

It's pretty cute when the monkey is riding like a little backwards backpack, but when it starts riding the goat like a horse — that's true friendship.

Maybe I'll spend the rest of my Memorial Day in the forest with a handful of snacks and wait for another unlikely pairing. The equivalent in the West might be a deer and a squirrel? A bear and an opossum?

The most likely surprise pairing in urban America is probably a human pushing a baby stroller — but instead of a human baby, there's a puppy inside.

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Lisi Merkley, KSLLisi Merkley
Lisi Merkley is a news producer for KSL. Prior to joining KSL in May 2021, she was editor in chief of The Daily Universe at Brigham Young University, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and Spanish.
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