After already helping to raise two royal white tiger cubs, a leopard and four lions, Anjana is now playing surrogate mother to a nine-week-old orphan Puma named Sierra.

Anjana has become inseparable from her newest charge providing all the love and protection that Sierra would otherwise have receive from her missing mother.

Check out this wonder of nature for yourself by checking out the following images.

As the story associated story goes, when the white tiger cub pair (Mitra and Shiva) were born during Hurricane Hannah, the flooding of their sanctuary forced their separation from their mother. They ended up at South Carolina’s “The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS)” under the care of infant animal care giver China and her 2 year old chimpanzee companion, Anjana.

Anjana has been by China’s side since she was born and has therefore naturally learned the ropes when it comes to the caring for and raising of baby animals. Having already helped raise leopards, lions, orangutans, Anjana’s maternal behaviour has resulted in her obvious close bond with the white tiger cubs. Cue the awwwwwwww’s…

The thing that really gets me about these pictures, taken by Barry Bland, is the incredible visual parallels you can draw between Anjana’s postures, expressions and apparent emotions, to that of a human. I’m blown away. But wait… we’re all descendants of that naked couple that ran around with the snake and that apple tree and all that right??? Pffffffffft.