wild moms Archives - Dr. Carin Bondar

The Environment Affects The Size Of These Bird Eggs

December 30, 2020 0

Female birds can change egg contents based on social status, the qualities of dad, and in response to environmental factors. For example, when population density is high and a female’s chicks are likely to experience […]

Animal Kingdom Wet Nurses & The Milk Evacuation Hypothesis

December 23, 2020 0

Moms can employ a number of strategies to ensure that their young are adequately fed during their first few months of life. Many of these involve providing help to other moms by sharing in the […]

The Social Status of These Bird Moms Determines Their Egg Size

December 16, 2020 0

In addition to manipulating their eggs based on the qualities of dad, bird moms can also alter egg allocation levels based on the social system. This is especially evident when the social system is one […]

Bottlenose Dolphin Newborn Development

November 18, 2020 0

Bottlenose dolphin moms give birth in an open environment. Newborn dolphins remain very close to their mothers for the first few weeks after birth. Echelon Swimming Something called echelon swimming takes place for at least […]

These Primates Always Have Twins

November 4, 2020 0

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 […]

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 […]