A feline foster arrangement for a cheetah cub at Cincinnati Zoo has shown, once again, the utterly blind and reckless love of mothers in the animal kingdom, able to turn a needy fur ball’s maternal mismatch into a warm and fuzzy animal adoption.
It was not tragedy that brought this male cub into adorable proximity with his two new furry siblings in June, nor hardship that led him to be separated from his mother into the cozy embrace of warm hay under the belly of his cuddly new parent. But it was a simple biological pragmatism. And necessity.
