It greeted its foster parents by raising its wings, pointing its beak upward, raising its head feathers, and chattering.
While G.M. was fighting for its life — and trying to unload its foster child — it abandoned development work on future Saabs, said G.M. executives and engineers deeply involved in its projects.
New York City's child welfare agency said Monday that it would sever its foster care contracts with Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York, an 80-year-old Roman Catholic agency that has been troubled in recent years.
Although it gave up its foster care program because of the possibility children would end up in the homes of gay couples who were legally married, it has not abandoned all the other good things it does nor taken out its disapproval of the new ordinance on the poor and the destitute.
When a honeyguide chick hatches, it jabs its beak into its foster siblings and shakes them until they die.
The young cuckoo, while still in the nest, grows rapidly in response to the efforts of its foster parents, who regard it as their own.
While many brood parasites are raised alongside host chicks and can be relatively benign, three independently evolved brood parasitic groups have evolved extremely high degrees of virulence: the young parasite actively kills its foster siblings, thus ensuring that it monopolises the parental care provided by the host parents.
Each year, California must show that 99.68% of its foster children are free of abuse — and it always meets that benchmark.
Ibardoloza's response to where he would be without Trade Tech and its foster youth program would sound trite if it weren't so true.
At the age of 20 to 23 days, each bird was presented with odor samples from the nest it hatched in and the nest that served as its foster home.
Tubby and 30-year-old Purple Girl, its foster mom, took to the baby penguin and treated it like one of their own brood, according to Detroit Zoological Society Curator of Birds Tom Schneider.
