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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
One Big Happy Family by Lisa Rogak is a feel-good book about animals that have fostered infant animal outside of their own species. Most of the foster parents featured are dogs that have helped raise everything from a kangaroo joey to a pygmy hippo, but other animal surrogate parents get in on the act as well such as a male orangutan helping with a pair of frisky lion cubs. In all, fifty stories of inter-species relationships are shared along with photos of the mixed families. One of the most fascinating pairings shown is a wild lioness that began taking care of an antelope calf shortly after that same lioness and another had killed and eaten the calf's mother. A quick read at under 150 pages, this is one that is likely to fascinate adults and children alike.
Labels:
adult non-fiction,
animal surrogates,
cats,
dogs,
ducks,
interspecies adoption,
kangaroo,
lamb,
lions,
Lisa Rogak,
orangutan,
owl,
pig
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