The European cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a brood parasite; i.e., it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, which act as foster parents for the young cuckoos.
In recent years, the center has also gathered a cluster of local families to act as foster parents for neighborhood children, so that youngsters placed in foster care can usually keep attending the same school and see their friends and parents often.
In early medieval Europe, it was common for kings to act as foster-fathers for the sons of other kings.
"Rebekah took on a horse and effectively acted as a foster parent for a year or so," he said.
"The fact is that the author went to extraordinary lengths: she provided people who acted as her foster siblings.
One acted as his foster father after his own father had been killed in 1531 during one of the many religious conflicts of the times; another fed and sheltered him for three years; and a third saw him through upper school at Strassburg.
"Rebekah took on a horse and effectively acted as a foster parent for it for a year or so.
Despite the fact that Schleiden and Schwann's models proved to be wrong, they acted as catalysts to foster hot debates about cell multiplication and organization that dominated histology for the rest of the century.
Walter Gary Sharp, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University who taught the course "The Law of 24" in 2007-8, said "24" acted as "a tool to foster public debate to help the public and the government of all nations to consider the proper limits on democracies in their efforts to combat terrorism".
The company simultaneously fostered a sense of ownership and community around product development and acted as a way for makers to open up about the successes and setbacks of transforming a product from idea to execution.
An accomplice acted as lookout.
