{"id":4108,"date":"2015-05-18T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2015-05-18T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:12:47","slug":"adoption-in-eastern-grey-kangaroos-a-consequence-of-misdirected-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/adoption-in-eastern-grey-kangaroos-a-consequence-of-misdirected-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption in Eastern Grey Kangaroos: A Consequence of Misdirected Care?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4109\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/journal.pone_.0125182.g001_v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4109\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4109\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/journal.pone_.0125182.g001_v2-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Female kangaroo with an adopted young in her pouch. The light blue eartag in the ear of the young kangaroo  was applied when captured in the pouch of another female. (Photo courtesy of C. Le Gall-Payne)\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/journal.pone_.0125182.g001_v2-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/journal.pone_.0125182.g001_v2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female kangaroo with an adopted young in her pouch. The light blue eartag in the ear of the young kangaroo was applied when captured in the pouch of another female. (Photo courtesy of C. Le Gall-Payne)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have observed wild kangaroos adopting young kangaroos.<\/p>\n<p>In a six-year study of eastern grey kangaroos in Australia, 11 of 326 juveniles were adopted and four of them involved \u2018switches\u2019 between mothers. In these switches a mother adopted a juvenile while simultaneously abandoning her own, or a previously adopted, offspring.<\/p>\n<p>The observations baffles the authors as these adoptions did not improve, nor decrease, offspring survival.<\/p>\n<p>They conclude that eastern grey kangaroo mothers may have difficulty in recognizing \u00a0their own offspring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0125182\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 13<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Wendy J. King, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Marco Festa-Bianchet, Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Qu\u00e9bec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have observed wild kangaroos adopting young kangaroos. In a six-year study of eastern grey kangaroos in Australia, 11 of 326 juveniles were adopted and four of them involved \u2018switches\u2019 between mothers. In these switches a mother adopted a juvenile while simultaneously abandoning her own, or a previously adopted, offspring. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,1290],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/journal.pone_.0125182.g001_v2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-14g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4110,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}