#but it was still a REALLY cool interspecies event that occurred naturally

[kedreeva]

Follow up to the New Year's game ask, the kindness is actually one I've seen from several of the students I work with. With each group were playing a competitive board game they'd picked and one kiddo had a lot of the items to get past the obstacles while the other was having really bad luck. Well, when unlucky kiddo landed on a monster space and should have had to go backwards again, the other student asked if they could use one of their items to help and turn it into a team game instead, where they worked together to get each other to the end. That's what we do and it is so sweet to see a student wanting to help another not feel bad and get frustrated. I always ask if they want to play it competitive or team and I've had it happen where they pick competitive, but then will switch it to team if the other student is getting upset or sad. They just want to have fun playing the game and it's more enjoyable for them if the other student is having fun too.

That's so great actually!

This year, in Kensington Park, Michigan, a family of sandhill cranes raised a Canada goose as their own baby, alongside their own.

This was the first documented case of sandhill cranes raising a chick from outside their own genus!