The animal kingdom many times surprises us invalidating everything we thought we knew about it. Interspecies adoptions happen relatively often in captivity, where new mothers often lack more experienced role models to show them how to properly care for their young. In wildlife sanctuaries and zoos people often keep dogs around for this very purpose. There are a few stories involving animal combinations that were clear predator- prey relationships. Nature can really be amazing, so check out these amazing animal stories that will really melt your heart:
1. Tosia The Cat Adopted Ducklings
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2. Dog Adopts Tiger Cubs
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This story happened in one of the Zoos in Russia. After their mother tigress abandoned her cubs, they have successfully found their new mom, a dog. At first, they used to hiss on their stepmother but very soon they got used to each other and accepted their new mom. But it is not so rare that the female animals adopt abandoned babies of different species and provide them with comfort and sustenance. The tiger's mother already killed two of its siblings, and one of the surviving cubs was badly injured by its mom. So cub's keepers were forced to find a surrogate mother for the little cubs.
The tiger cubs at first swiped their claws and hissed at their weird-looking mother but with patience only a mother knows, she waited for them to get accustomed to her.
3. Tiger Adopted Pigs
At the California's Zoo, a Bengal tigress has been raising piglets since she was 2 years old. Because of her complications during pregnancy, she gave birth prematurely and her cubs died soon after birth. After recovering from that hard delivery, the tigress started to decline in health. The veterinarians noticed that tigress has fallen into a state of depression because of her cubs, so they decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo until then. Sometimes a mother of one species will take a young from another species as her own, but the only orphans that could be found fast enough, were a litter of weaner pigs.
The vets wrapped the little piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the new tiger mom. Their new mom was actually nursed by a pig until she was 4 months old, so this was nothing unusual for this brave tiger.
4. Baboon And A Bush Baby
A yellow baboon has adopted a bush baby in an animal orphanage in Nairobi, and the baboon took care of the bush baby as if it was her own child. Experts say that these animals formed the bond in order to cope in the new environment at the animal orphanage. His new mom is not much older than he is: she’s a yellow baboon who was also abandoned. The six-month-old female baboon defied nature and adopted its very own three-month-old bushbaby (galagos). The two are now inseparable, and drinking out of the same bottle and running around in each other’s arms.
Sooner or later, as both animals grow up, they will need to develop in their own ways because, yellow baboons are active during the day and they sleep at night, while bushbabies are nocturnal animals.
5. Cat Adopted A Squirrel
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When animal workers introduced an orphaned squirrel to a mom cat and her tiny kittens, the mother cat’s reaction was hardly what you would think. The mama cat accepted the tiny squirrel as one of her own babies and she began cleaning and feeding it from the first moment. Instead of hurting and eating the squirrel, the mother cat took the baby squirrel in as one of her own! Cat Oreo accepted a tiny squirrel and nursed it along with her litter of kittens even before its eyes were opened.
The newborn squirrel was found on the ground by Oreo’s family after it fell from its shelter and placed it with Oreo and her babies in their straw-filled outdoor nest .And the little kittens also don’t seem to notice that he is any different than they are.
6. Dog Adopts A Pig
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The little pig was placed in the care of the dog as a last chance to save her, and their plan worked! A piglet that its mother rejected had a very little chance to survive but thanks partly to an unlikely bond with one special dog, the little piglet survived after all. As this little piglet was born together with its 12 brothers and sisters but the piglet wasn't big enough to fight her siblings for mom's milk, they had to do something in order to save its life. They decided to at least try to bond the dog, which had her own puppies, with the little piglet.
The adoption seems to be working pretty well and the little piglet was soon suckling milk from his new mom. The chances for this are very low but you can try; you see the miracles can happen.
7. Cat Adopts A Baby Rabbit
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When a mother cat came across an orphaned rabbit, she decided to help him and make the small rabbit part of her family. The rabbit's mom died when it was just a week old. She treated the rabbit like it was one of her own kittens; the cat even took the rabbit to the bed where her family sleeps. Instead of attacking the little rabbit, she gently picks it up in her mouth and carries it right to her bed so that she can take care of it.
It is amazing and strange how a rabbit could melt the heart of a cat because rabbits are rodents, like mice and rats, the cat's natural prey. Little rabbit fits right in with the rest of the kittens.
8. Sheep Adopts An Elephant
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When a baby elephant’s mother fell down a cliff, the little elephant was saved by people and taken to the Shamwari Rehabilitation Centre. Elephants are really intelligent creatures. They can get friendly with other species as well. There they began the challenging task of trying to persuade him to accept bottle feeding. Remembering their success bonding a rhino with a sheep they tried the something very similar. They knew the elephant needed love as well as food. In the beginning, it may not have been the warmest of welcomes, but when Albert the sheep came, he cheered up the sad calf.
Although the sheep had a safe area for a get away, in case things went awry. But, just after a day had passed, the pig and elephant had already bonded. The two spent their days together and formed a special bond over time.
9. Lionesses In The Kenyan Wild Adopted An Oryx Baby
The park rangers have decided that the best for both was to separate them, but later opted for the natural way - let nature take its course, but they crossed their fingers in the hope that their strange relationship would last.
10. Capybara Adopts A Dog
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The refuge adopts many of the puppies who pass through, so the capybara has to say goodbye to the litters she had helped to raise, but there are always new babies around to hang around with.
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