
I meant hummingbear.

Corporal Edward Burckhardt poses with the kitten that he said “captured” him on the battlefield of Iwo Jima.
Photo credit: Buddies: Men, Dogs and World War II, by L. Douglas Keeney.


Perce Blackborow and Mrs. Chippy (really a tom) both members of Ernest Shackleton’s crew on the Endurance.


Prime minister Winston Churchill strokes Blackie goodbye, the ship’s cat of HMS Prince of Wales, as he is about to cross the gangway to the USS McDougal (DD-358), an American destroyer, during a ceremonial visit in 1941.
-Wikipedia