Baloo the black bear, Leo the Lion and Shere Khan the Bengal tiger–all named after characters from The Jungle Book–live and play together in an Atlanta zoo.

“It is wonderful and magical to see a giant American Black Bear put his arm around a Bengal tiger and then to see the tiger nuzzle up to the bear like a domestic cat,” Diane Smith, assistant director at Noah’s Ark zoo, said.

The trio were kept as exotic pets by drug barons since they were 2 months old, and were later rescued in a drug raid eight years ago. They have been inseparable since. They even eat, play and sleep together.

“We could have separated them, but since they came as a kind of family, the zoo decided to keep them together,”  she added. “To our knowledge, this is the only place where you’ll find this combination of animals together, they are our BLT, (bear, lion and tiger).”

Via The Sun