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- noun the technique of removing
eggs from the nest of one species of bird, to beincubated in the nest of another. Usually done to aid the recovery of endangered species. - verb Present participle of
cross-foster .
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Examples
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In order to avoid this situation from happening, zoologists decided to make one mother responsible for both cubs, in an act known as "cross-fostering."
WATCH: Risky Move Saves Baby Cheetah The Huffington Post 2011
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When the young Washoe first saw other chimps she was raised entirely by humans as part of the cross-fostering technique, she called them "black bugs."
1 Blown Tire = No Chimp Sighting Field Notes 2006
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When the young Washoe first saw other chimps she was raised entirely by humans as part of the cross-fostering technique, she called them "black bugs."
Archive 2006-09-01 Field Notes 2006
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Researchers try to answer the question by cross-fostering the animal, that is, switching the animal's mother at birth so that she is raised by one with behavior B, and then watching to see which behavior the animal displays when she grows up.
Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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The first two studies to show that primates were somewhat independent from their 'natures' involved a classic technique in behavioral genetics called cross-fostering.
Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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Researchers try to answer the question by cross-fostering the animal, that is, switching the animal's mother at birth so that she is raised by one with behavior B, and then watching to see which behavior the animal displays when she grows up.
Robert Sapolsky is one of my favorite writers Jenny Davidson 2005
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The first two studies to show that primates were somewhat independent from their 'natures' involved a classic technique in behavioral genetics called cross-fostering.
Robert Sapolsky is one of my favorite writers Jenny Davidson 2005
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Sigvardsson, and C. R. Cloninger, Maternal inheritance of alcohol abuse: cross-fostering analysis of adopted women, Archives of General Psychiatry 38 1981: 965-69.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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Sigvardsson, and C. R. Cloninger, Maternal inheritance of alcohol abuse: cross-fostering analysis of adopted women, Archives of General Psychiatry 38 1981: 965-69.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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The process is called cross-fostering, and it's the sixth time it's been done in North America, according to cheetah biologist Adrienne Crosier.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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