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Unlikely animal friendship blossoms when a carriage-pulling horse shares its food with pigeons

Pigeons need love too.
By Samantha Scelzo  on 

They share the streets, so they might as well share their food.

A tourist captured this video of a very generous carriage-pulling horse feeding pigeons near Central Park by spitting some of its food onto the ground for them:

Because the horse's head took up too much space inside the bucket, the pigeons couldn't sneak their way in to steal a snack. But, the horse had its bros' backs and fed them from its own stash. After all, city animals need to stick together.

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If only we could all be as considerate and kind as this charitable steed.

[H/T: UPI]

Topics Animals

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Samantha Scelzo

Samantha was a Watercooler Web Culture & Lifestyle intern at Mashable. Follow her on Twitter @samiscelz.


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