A photo celebration
Here are Matthew Broderick, Miley Cyrus and all your favorite celebrities, laying hands on dogs, tigers, goats and (almost) a hippopotamus.
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Actor Adam Sandler touches a walrus during filming of the movie 50 First Dates. Vallejo, California, 2004.
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall rubs the ear of a goat. Hackney, England, 2009.
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Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her terrier, Fala. Circa 1950.
(Photo from the Franklin Roosevelt Library, via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Harrison Ford is, perhaps fortunately, not quite touching a hippopotamus. Calista Flockhart and her son Liam look on. National Zoo, Washington DC, 2009.
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Queen Elizabeth II and her pet dorgi — a cross between a dachshund and a corgi. Badminton, England, 1976.
With her are the Queen Mother and (left) Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones.
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Actress Uma Thurman touches Shamu the Killer Whale at Sea World. San Diego, 2009.
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Actress Miley Cyrus and her sister Noah (left) and a Maltipoo. Burbank, California, 2010.
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First Lady Michelle Obama, joined by children from Tubman Elementary School, touches Bo the Dog on the South Lawn of the White House. Washington, DC, 2011.
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Socialite Paris Hilton and Tinkerbell, her Chihuahua. Los Angeles, 2009.
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Oprah Winfrey touches a koala for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Australia, 2010.
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Elizabeth Taylor and movie star Lassie. Hollywood, 1946.
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Celebrity astronaut Ham the Chimp touches a Homo sapiens. Florida, 1961.
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HRH Prince Harry grabs for his polo pony as he falls during the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic. New York City, 2010.
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London, late 1990s.
The dog is Oscar, who was a fixture around London’s Met Bar with his owner, Dennis Gill.