adoption, n.Trivia

Squirrels sometimes adopt another squirrel's baby if the parent dies.

98% of adoptions in Japan are actually adult men between the ages of 20-30. It has been common practice for business owners to adopt individuals intending to one day take over the company so the company qualifies as "family-run" organizations.

Adopting children is actually considered taboo in Korea, and because of this South Korea's orphans are almost never adopted unless a foreigner adopts them.

Steve Jobs often went to his biological father's Mediterranean restaurant in San Jose and even shook his hand, neither knowing of their relationship to one another

A group of sperm whales adopted a bottlenose dolphin with a spinal deformation, after it was lost from its own dolphin group.