Years ago there was this book about animal-human cooperation. On the cover was this guy in a small boat with a panther and her cub in the front. He was this naturalist, or whatever, in India, and had rescued this panther when she herself had been a cub.
And now she came onto him for a lift to this island she lived on, an island in a lake, that had been submerged during a monsoon.
And does anybody remember that story in the paper a few years ago about a duck that got the attention of a cop, I think it was in Victoria, and let him to a storm drain where her kids had fallen in?