Is there a term for when one species of animal raises another?

Question

Every once in a while you hear a story about, like, a tiger raising a penguin or something like that. A dog raising a duck, etc. Is there a term for that phenomenon? It would make it easier to look up.

Answer 1

Surrogacy

Answer 2

Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species - espeically if uintroduced right after birth.

Here's some terms:

foster, surrogate (actually when another person carries the child), substitute, proxy, stand-in, deputy, alternate, delegate

See link below for a cute example

Answer 3

Do a search using these words -- cross-species adoption ...

That should give you enough other words to be able to also do book research on this subject.

Answer 4

cross species surrogate parenting

Answer 5

The term would be Surrogate