Mother Cat Takes Seven Chicks Under Her Paw
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
A cat has succeeded in repressing her predatory instincts by adopting seven chicks to rear alongside her own litter of kittens. One-year-old Nimra, from Madaba in Jordan, has been watching over her unusual litter ever since the chicks’ mother died a month ago.
The mixed family, made up of her four newly born kittens and seven adopted chicks, lives in a cardboard box and has seemingly put its differences aside to eat, sleep and play together.
Examples of animals from different species reaching out to each other in times of need are rare but not unhead of. In 2005, a baby hippopotamus formed a bond with a giant century-old male tortoise after the infant nearly died in the tsunami that lashed Kenya. The same year in China, a chihuahua took charge of a newly hatched chick.
SOURCE: Times Online UK
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