Babou (ocelot)

Salvador Dalí with his pet ocelot, Babou, 1965
Salvador Dalí (left) and Babou (right), 1965

Babou was a pet ocelot and frequent companion of the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in the 1960s. A cat lover, Dalí claimed to have been given the animal by the head of state of Colombia. Babou's date of death is unknown.