A tiger is pictured in the zoo in Frankfurt/Main western Germany on June 11, 2013. FRANK RUMPENHORST/AFP/Getty Images
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A mother giraffe licks her 20-day old baby giraffe calf and stays close to him at the Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata on June 10, 2013.
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A Javan leopard baby is pictured during its presentation to the press on June 7, 2013 at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. The male animal was born on April 16, 2013 and was given the name "Timang" by its keepers.
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A young meerkat is fed by a zoo keeper in the zoo in Aachen, western Germany, on June 4, 2013. The young meerkats are raised by the zoo keeper as their mother rejected them after giving birth.
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A ten-week-old white tiger cub shows its teeth in the city zoo in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, on May 29, 2013. A white tigress gave birth to the three cubs in Tbilisi Zoo in March.
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An albino baby kangaroo peers out of the pouch of its mother on May 29, 2013 at the zoo in Duisburg, western Germany.
Bonedigger is a 5-year-old male lion who was born with metabolic bone disease and could not walk. He was raised with a "pride" of Daschunds. They formed an unusual bond and became best friends – the dogs slept with him, ate out of his food bowl and played with him even though he could not walk.
They now live at the Exotic Animal Park <http://gwzoo.org/> in Wynnewood, Oklahoma - a non-profit park whose mission is to provide homes for abandoned, misplaced or abused animals. The park has rescued more than 1,400 animals and placed more than 1,200 in zoos and sanctuaries around the world.
The park was damaged in the recent Oklahoma tornadoes and floods.
Donations to the park can be made here.
http://donateoklahoma.usza.us/index.html
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G.W. Zoo
Bonedigger gets a little affection from Milo.
G.W. Zoo
Bonedigger flanked by two of his pals, Abby on left and Milo on right.
Bonedigger gets his teeth cleaned by Milo.
Bonedigger and his pride of weenie dogs when they were young.
