[catz]

> . or for that matter how would we go about to teach the animals how to reproduce? Are they to live among animals or similar character while they are young?

Most lower animals are ruled by instinct. A bird never 'learns' from his parents how to make a nest.

For interest sake, this was done for a while with a completely different species. Domesticated cows were implanted with fertilized Buffalo eggs (this was because Buffalo's carried Bovine TB and a TB free Buffalo is worth a lot more $$).

[carpo]

Yet many birds learn complex vocalizations from their parents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vocalization#Learning

[pavel_lishin]

I think one of the arguments raised in one of the Jurassic Park books was that parents are necessary to teach "culture"; in the novel, the raptors were incredibly aggressive, going as far as fighting each other and killing each other over food, instead of just fighting hard enough to show the beta male his place.