why do some animals adopt other animals that are obliviously from different species ?

Question

I always wonder if it is because they dont see the differences are that they genuinely dont care at all

In: Biology

Answer 1

It doesn’t really happen all that often in the wild.

On the rare occasions that it does, it’s because it’s not necessarily that obvious to an animal that a different animal belongs to a different species, and because the animals that evolved to nurture young often do so based on instinctive responses that are easy to trick under the right circumstances.