mattnewport comments on Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 22 February 2010 05:10:28PM 0 points [-]

There are a number of stories of mammals 'adopting' babies of other species in zoos. Here's one example. There seem to have been some misleading emails including pictures related to this story but as far as I can tell it is true that there have been instances of both a pig raising tiger cubs and a tiger raising piglets.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 22 February 2010 08:03:04PM *  1 point [-]

Then we thought, since this is the Chinese Year of the Pig, why don't we find a pig to nurse the hungry babies.

I have to admit, I wouldn't have thought of this.