My brain has gone to sleep, and so must I ...
Okay, you know that phenomenon, which is described in a perfectly simple, straightforward, everyday, common English word like "bread" or "chair," that describes the bonding behavior of newborn animals, ostensibly to their mothers, but theoretically to whatever large object they encounter upon opening their eyes for the first time?

Like, if you put a toaster in the basket with the motherless baby kittens, they would think the toaster was their mommy? And they would .... ________ with it? Or like in that episode of TNG where the space creature was like, sticking to the side of the ship like glue and everyone was all like, OMG, WTF, space creature! What is it doing? What does it want??!? Why can't we shake it and it turned out that it was actually a newborn baby space creature that had become separated from it's mother and _____ed with the Enterprise?

What the hell is that word? HELP MEEEEE!!!!

PS: It's not a crazy science word! It's an ordinary word that you would in numerous other contexts all the time.