Interspecies Intermingling of the Day: A Chinese farmer claims his cat has suddenly begun acting like a mother to a brood of 30 newborn chicks.

Lao Yang, of Suibing County in Heilongjiang Province, says Niu Niu's initial intentions were not immediately clear. "I came back home and found Niu Niu had got into the chicks' box and I thought she was going to eat them," he is quoted as saying. "I