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I'll be your mummy and you be my little kitty cat: Anjana the chimp 
shows off her parenting skills...with a puma cub

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1210084/Ill-mummy-little-kitty-cat-Anjana-chimp-shows-parenting-skills--puma-cub.html 
(includes multiple pics)

She has a tender heart, a nice hairy shoulder to cry on - and she 
knows where her zoo keeps the baby wipes.

So Anjana the chimpanzee is well qualified to be a kitten-sitter.

Since orphaned puma cub Sierra turned up at the zoo, Anjana has helped 
her human carers with all the feeding, cuddling and chasing duties. 

The chimpanzee, who is five, has lived her whole life at The Institute 
of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina, in 
the U.S..

She learned to care for little big cats while in the charge of 
resident feline curator China York.

Park director Dr Bhagavan Antle said: 'Chimpanzees are great learners 
and imitators so it wasn't long before she took on the right 
behaviours that were necessary to keep the kittens in line.

'If Sierra is running around too fast then Anjana will scoop her up 
and make sure she doesn't get into any trouble.'

Anjana has already helped to bring up two royal white tiger cubs, a 
leopard and four lions.

Dr Antle added: 'She is a great assistant. If you need a baby wipe you 
can just tell her and she'll run off and get it.'