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| Cross-fostering is when the adults of one species raise the young of another species, as part of their family; nuturing the child within the framework and social environment of the adult parent(s) and their kin.
For example, the sign language capable chimps at the Chimpanzee and Human Communications Institute were raised in a human environment as deaf human children would be. |
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Learn more: Moja Is Born: Friends of Washoe Abstract: The role of cross-fostering in sign language studies of chimpanzees, the Gardners |
