The below is still not a correct example. This is what happened due to your
situation of introducing cats into your home with your dog and your friend
introducing a horse to a herd of cows, it's only source of nourishment. In
the wild I seriously doubt that you would find many incidences of the below
happening. I'm quite sure that there may be the occasional exception to the
rule, still in the below examples, they were babies looking for their
natural milk, correct? You can get other species to care for the offspring
of another, by introducing them into their environment. My wife raises
Lovebirds, she has a small group of other breeders that raises Lovebirds and
Cockatiels (spelling?). If the mother 'Tiel decides not to raise her babies,
they will split the clutch up and place a baby with other mother birds who
are raising babies. Usually the other mother bird will feed and care for the
orphan even though it isn't theirs. I doubt though, that you'd find a mother
bird in the wild just randomly feeding any baby bird it happens to see.
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OK , I will throw my 2 cents in here on this one. I know of three species
that drink the milk of another species without technology or human
intervention. My border collie, with no encouragement from me, decided to
nurse two very young kittens we brought into our home. Also, my friend was
just telling me her baby horse, who was put in with the cows, nursed
regularly from a mama cow. I have seen dogs ( puppies) try to nurse from a
cow -although i can't tell you if it was a success- but the attempt was
there. Of course, most dogs and cats will drink it if offered.
All in all, I still am not a big proponent of milk in general (other than
breast milk for babies) , but do occasionally eat raw goat cheese. For those
that do well with it -great! However, I do think you are the exception
rather than the rule.
I am quite intolerant of cow milk (gassy rumbling within the hour, diarrhea
and flatulence-yippee!) and have gotten gastroenteritis (food poisoning)
from raw cow's milk twice as a child.
Mike Audette wrote:
> We are the only animal, who continues nursing after weaning, on a
>different animal. With other animals, human intervention can make this so.
>Can you give me any other examples, in nature?
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