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We can only hope the governor and Legislature get moving on this.

- Board of Elections doesn’t enforce New York’s campaign finance laws, by Gerald McKinstry, Newsday.com, May 7, 2013.

3. Mom, mother, madre, mutter, mama, mum — whatever you call her, everyone has one. While Mother’s Day celebrates human mothers, there are a lot of other moms in the animal kingdom worth a shout-out.

They run the gamut from supremely selfless to downright devious. Here’s a look at some of the wackiest animal mothers.

1. Kangaroo adopters

The roo riding around in a kangaroo's pouch may not be her own. That’s right: Female kangaroos sometimes adopt baby kangaroos, though it might be accidental. Such an accidental adoption doesn't happen often, but when it does, a mother kangaroo will care for a changeling roo for the rest of its “pouch life” and nurse it for several months afterward during the “young-at-foot” stage, when the juvenile kangaroo permanently exits the pouch.

While there have been a few cases of marsupials fostering babies in captivity, such cases are less common in the wild. Still, some animals, such as sea lions, have been known to adopt in the wild.

2. Cuckoo sneak

When it comes to rearing young, female cuckoo birds farm the task out to others. Cuckoo moms lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, which raise them unwittingly. Often, the other birds are a smaller species, and the cuckoo chick hatches first, grows faster and kicks the other chicks out of the nest. The other chicks die, and the cheeky cuckoo receives all of the adoptive mother’s attention.