Adoption in the animal world

Many people mistakenly believe that animals are alien to the sense of caring and love. But this is not so. Quite often the females care about other people's young. There are even cases when the predator took custody of his potential victim. In this collection you will find twenty examples of this strange "guardianship" which documented and confirmed. And how many more cases that person does not know, he can only guess.
20 photos via vasily-sergeev

1. The dog breed golden retriever litter left abandoned rabbits.





2. The mother of a tiny kangaroo hit by a car. Perhaps the four-crumb too would have died if he had not taken custody of the ten-year German Pointer. This case is recorded in Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia.



3. Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, there was indeed a curious case. Lioness driven antelope and ate, and her orphaned baby adopted and cared for him as a mother lion cub.



4. In one of the British rescue centers of wildlife deer thrown out Great Dane Rocky.



5. Three kids cat Hiroko died. All my unspent love and affection cat gave two tiny ducklings.



6. Norfolk (UK) kitten with pigs reared pig. Unusual family in the photo.



7. In New Zealand, for the mother of two newborn lambs become a cow.



8. The mother of the newborn lamb refused it. But Zoya Dalmatians adopted and brought up the crumbs.



9. The national park wildlife at Daventry (England) chimpanzee Anna has always been actively involved in raising puppies.



10. Henrietta hen and goose farm Gertie Iowa bring together three ducklings.



11. Linton Zoo in Cambridgeshire young lioness abandoned her baby. Little predator took under his wing cat zoo director Arnie. Grown considerably and got stronger cub was later sent to Uganda.



12. Four of the Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs abandoned by her mother. They brought Mark collie in the hospital for animals.



13. Orphaned dog Judy took custody as a lonely kid.



14. Seaview Park Lions in South Africa about abandoned babies hyenas and lions cares Collie Solo.



15. Murray Dog - three barsuchat guardian.



16. When mum kids absent herself on business, chicken Mabel always tightened puppies closer to his basket.



17. The owners found the cat Chestnut and gave shelter to the tiny squirrel patient. They even could not assume that their home favorite will begin to take care of the kid.



18. Spaniel Jess busy feeding the lambs.



19. The female peacock eggs accidentally mixed up, so she had hatched goslings. From a female chicks not abandoned and cared for them as a family.



20. rabbit raised a litter of abandoned kittens. Kids found and brought home a female owner.



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