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allocaretaker (複数形 allocaretakers)

1. An animal that provides allocare to an infant.
   • 2015, Sharon L. Gursky, The Spectral Tarsier, page 166:

     Direct support for the learning-to-mother hypothesis also comes from the recent observation that young female vervet monkeys who have had the opportunity to act as allocaretakers have higher survivorship of their own young than females who have not previously acted as allocaretakers (Fairbanks 1993).