Dr. Carin Bondar - Biologist with a Twist

Animal Parenting

Bottlenose Dolphin Newborn Development

Bottlenose dolphin moms give birth in an open environment. Newborn dolphins remain very close to their mothers for the first few weeks after birth. Photo via Adobe Stock Echelon Swimming Something called echelon swimming takes [...]
Public Talks & Events

Phallacy: Life Lessons From The Animal Penis – My Live Chat With Author Dr. Emily Willingham

A couple of weeks ago, I streamed a live chat on Facebook between myself and Dr. Emily Willingham, journalist and science writer, who recently published the book Phallacy: Life Lessons From The Animal Penis. I [...]
Animal Parenting

These Primates Always Have Twins

The New World monkeys of Central and South America, tamarins and marmosets, are the main groups of cooperatively breeding primates. These are collectively known as callitrichids, and they inhabit many areas of Central and South [...]

The Importance of Colostrum

October 28, 2020 0

Milk pretty much picks up where the placenta left off in terms of how a mammalian infant is provisioned by its mom. The most energetically demanding time for infants, the period just after birth, coincides […]

Hermaphrodites in the Animal Kingdom

October 21, 2020 0

As members of a species with separate sexes, humans tend to forget about the suite of organisms out there that are hermaphrodites, simultaneously carrying male and female genitalia. Hermaphroditism is present in 24 of the […]

Pausing Pregnancy: Diapause In Mammalian Species

October 14, 2020 0

You may operate under the false impression that once a sperm has met with an egg and created an embryo, the process cannot be paused and restarted. However, the physiology of many mammalian and primate […]