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*** Believable if you consider the fact that people tend to marry those who remind them of their parents, and who better to remind you of Daddy than his own son, and of Mommy than her own daughter?
** As mentioned under Film, this happened to Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg which inspired the aformentioned TV film ''Switched at Birth''.
* Reproductive technologies, such as in-vitro fertilization, raise additional possibilities for sperm, eggs, embryos or zygotes to be Switched At Implantation. In the worst case, a woman could unknowingly give birth to a baby which has no DNA relationship either to her or to any existing member of her immediate family.
* Brood parasitism is a strategy used by certain bird species, most famously the Common Cuckoo, as well as some species of bee and wasps.
** This is a darker variant of this trope since there isn't any actual "switching" involved. The cuckoo chick simply hatches earlier than the other eggs (cuckoos incubate their eggs in their bodies longer than other birds to make sure this happens) and ''pushes the other eggs out of the nest to their doom''. This strategy only works because most birds are too stupid to tell the difference between a chick of their species and a cuckoo chick (who is sometimes larger than the "parents"). If the parents ''are'' smart enough to ditch the cuckoo chick, a bunch of adult cuckoos attack them according to what is seriously called the "Cuckoo Mafia Theory". Cuckoos are ''creepy''.
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