Amazing bond between Bengal tiger and handler in Indonesia Here's lickin' at you, kitty ... Mulan Jamilah and handler Abdullah Sholeh. Picture: Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images Source: Getty Images DON'T try this at home. Or at the zoo. Or in the wild. Tigers, you see, are not known for their affectionate, cuddly natures. Look at the book and movie Life of Pi: the Bengal tiger Richard Parker maintains his readiness to claw the protagonist to death throughout the story. Or look at the sad sorry tale of Siegfried and Roy, and the seven-year-old white tiger named Montecore, who bit Roy on the neck during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003. Closer to home, a tiger named Charlie savaged Dave Styles at Australia Zoo on November 26, leaving the experienced handler in intensive care for more than 10 days. There's a moral to these stories about close bonds formed between human beings and wild animals, and it is this: it's all fine and good until the day it's not. The feline's mutual ... Abdullah and Mulan. Still, until the day the luck runs out, we can marvel at the unlikely friendships that arise between human beings and the wild beasts that would otherwise eat them. The latest example of the phenomenon comes from Malang, Indonesia, where 33-year-old student Abdullah Sholeh has become best friend and a full-time nanny to a six-year-old Bengal tiger named Mulan Jamilah. The tiger's keepers have installed metal bars to separate the two when they are together in the enclosure. Animal antics ... Mulan paws Abduallah to make sure he's still awake. Mulan's owner, Noer Muhammad Sholeh, 51, asked Abdullah to take care of the tiger when it was a three-month-old cub at Dilem Village in East Java. Abdullah Sholeh regularly sleeps, plays and fights with the huge tiger. The pair are so inseparable, he often shuns his own bed to sleep alongside the big cat in her enclosure. Mulan now weighs 178 kilograms, is three meters long and one meter high. She is fed 6 kilograms of chicken or goat meat twice a day. We can only hope that's enough.