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  • Dolphin mom adopts whale calf—a first

    08/01/2019 7:11:16 AM PDT · by C19fan · 15 replies
    National Grographic ^ | July 30, 2019 | Erica Tennehouse
    Bottlenose dolphins are doting mothers, nursing, protecting, and playing with their youngsters for up to six years. Now, new research has revealed the first known case of a wild bottlenose mom adopting a calf of another species. In 2014, researchers spotted a bottlenose mother caring for an unusual-looking male calf, along with what was presumed to be her biological calf, in coastal waters off French Polynesia.