Two orphaned turkeys taking comfort with a feather duster in June (left). One of the turkeys and its new mourning dove companion in the fall (right). Image: Dawn Rise Ekdahl / Raven Ridge Wildlife Center

It seems straight out of a Disney movie—wild animals from two different species becoming inseparable friends. And yet that’s what happened at the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in southeastern Pennsylvania, between a turkey and a mourning dove.

Last spring, the wildlife center received two likely orphaned turkey poults (young turkeys). To calm them down, the team put them with a feather-duster as a stand-in mother turkey . Because turkey poults are easily stressed, they are difficult to rehabilitate, according to a Facebook post by the wildlife center. In fact, one of them didn’t make it.

“Since we never raise baby animals alone, we had to find a companion for the remaining poult,” the wildlife center wrote.…