Seeing this story on the news has inspired me to blog about it.
After Hurricane Hannah ravaged the state of South Carolina, the tigers of one of the zoos started acting very aggressive and were considered a danger to their young. So these two white tiger cubs were separated from their mother and adopted by a 2-year-old chimpanzee. As you can see from the photos he’s really taking parenting seriously. I wonder how their relationship will evolve…
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More adorable animal adoptions:
A paternal dog has adopted an abandoned baby goat as his surrogate child.
Billy the boxer has become the constant companion of the 12-day old kid called Lilly. He sleeps with the goat, licks her clean, and protects her from any dangers at Pennywell Farm wildlife centre at Buckfastleigh, near Totnes, Devon
Lilly was the smallest of a litter of three kids and her mother abandoned her because she could only care for the two stronger ones. The pair have attracted quite a crowd at the animal centre and the staff are keen to see how their relationship will develop.
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Dachshund Adopts Piglet
Yes, its a piglet in with the puppies!
He is just a little bigger than her other pups. Mom loves this little guy more than the other puppies and she is nursing him back to health. He is the cleanest piggy ever because mom licks him all the time.
It's so cute!
---In China, a chihuahua named HuaHua has adopted a chick. For whatever reason, the dog began to take care of the bird almost immediately after it was brought home. When the chick strays too far from it’s cot, HuaHua scoops the bird up in her mouth and walks the chick back to safety. As you can see, the chick looks delighted with this arrangement.
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An abandoned baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast found a giant male tortoise to be its segregate mother.
The male tortoise, who is more than one hundred years old, seemed to accept his position as the hippo’s new mother and the two have been inseparable ever since.
“They swim, eat, and sleep together,” the ecologist Paula Kahumbu of Lafarge Park said. “The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother.
Somebody approaches the tortoise; the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother.”
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A dog nursing two wild cats who's mother had died while giving birth to them, along with her own puppy.
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A boarder collie adopts baby ducks after their mother was hit by a car.
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Animals who adopt other species on youtube
Includes related videos
Altruism in animals wiki article.
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http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&ThirdPartyClicks=ARS_linktous_468x60_01
When I was younger my neighbor Amanda's dog would feed a little baby squirrel. I thought this was the most adorable thing ever. Well, until the squirrel would try to go into her house after the dog, and even followed me home and tried coming in my house with me as well.
Have you ever seen anything like this?
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