In 1967, Hester and Jerry Mundis were living in a Manhattan apartment with their son when they came across a baby chimpanzee in a rundown exotic animal shop. Almost 50 years later, the family looks back on the adventure of raising Boris with love.

In 1952, a California man received a 3-month-old male lion cub, which he raised in his home for 18 years. Zamba became a movie star, and his legacy lives on in the way animals are trained for the movies.

In 1986, Californian Dean Bernal settled in the Turks and Caicos Islands, where he came across a wild bottlenose dolphin known to locals as JoJo. JoJo found the perfect swim mate in swimmer and free diver, Dean.