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One of the many memorable catchphrases that entered popular culture through MGM's 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz was the refrain Lions and tigers and bears. Oh, my! spoken by Dorothy and her companions (the Scarecrow and the Tin Man) as they prepared to enter a dark, forbidding forest surrounding the Yellow Brick Road on their way to Oz: Literalists were fond of challenging the reality of this scene (even though the film is a fantasy) by claiming that one would find it impossible to identify any forested habitat on Earth that was currently home to lions and tigers and bears all living in the wild. Nonetheless, those three types of animals do live together — in ongoing harmony, yet — in at least one place in the world, the Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary in Locust Grove, Georgia. The three fearsome critters — Baloo (an American black bear), Leo (a lion), and Shere Khan (a Bengal tiger) — were rescued as 2-month-old cubs back in 2001 from drug dealers in Atlanta who had abused and neglected them, and they now reside together in one small enclosure at Noah's Ark, where they play ball, chase each other around, eat cookies daily and seem to have forged a friendship for life: Baloo, Leo, and Shere Khan were featured in an ABC News report in April 2013: The trio was also previously featured in an Associated Press report in 2010:
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