A dog caring for a baby Monkey

The baby monkey that's as thirsty as a dog: Caring mongrel suckles chimp separated from family back to health

 Mintu the caring mongrel has become something of a local celebrity in her tiny Bangladeshi village after adopting a baby monkey that was separated from its family and suckling it back to health.

Mintu added the orphaned simian to her litter of seven pups after angry villagers snatched it from a troop of monkeys that had been destroying their rice crops.
And to the astonishment of her British-Bangladeshi owners Mintu nursed the little creature back to full health and it now rides around on her back.

Caring Mintu the dog adopted this baby monkey as her own after angry villagers snatched it from a troop that had been destroying their rice crops

The story of the compassionate dog and the baby monkey spread quickly and scores of people have flocked to owner Mr Reza's house in Bishwanathpur village, north-east Bangladesh, to see for themselves.

Mr Reza said: 'The little monkey would have had little or no chance of survival after a number of angry villagers grabbed it from a troop of monkeys which had invaded a rice paddy.

'The monkeys caused a great deal of damage and when the villagers chased them off they caught the baby, which wasn't in the best of health.

'I hate to think what would have happened to it if it hadn't escaped and made its way to my house where it moved in with Mintu's puppies.

Plenty for everyone: Caring Mintu, suckles the little monkey alongside one of her seven pups

'I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the monkey suckling Mintu, who didn't seem to mind at all.
'Now the monkey lies down and sleeps with Mintu and the other puppies.'
Mr Reza said Mintu barks angrily if anyone disturbs the baby monkey.
Equally remarkable, he said, the monkey travels around the village riding on Mintu's back.
'It's a month since she joined the household, but she shows no sign of going back to the wild,' he said.

In mythology human brothers Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were famously raised by a wolf