This is the adorable moment a piglet slept between a tiger's legs as the unlikely duo curled up together for an afternoon nap.

Visitors to the zoo in China could hardly believe their eyes at the sight of the wild beast befriending the little farm animal like something out of Winnie the Pooh.

The rare scene, captured on phone video by Ms Zhang, shows the piglet lying on the tiger's belly between its hind legs undisturbed as the feline sleeps on its back.

It is unclear how the baby pig wound up in the tiger's den in the first place when they were seen in the enclosure at the zoo in Yuncheng in Shanxi, on March 12.

Thrilled Ms Zhang said: 'The pig and the tiger are very harmonious, it feels very magical and very cute.'