wild moms Archives - Dr. Carin Bondar

Mothers Day and Animal Moms

May 8, 2019 0

Mothers Day is a great day to celebrate your mom, people who held a mothering role in your life, or your own motherhood. Mothering in the animal kingdom can be dramatically different compared to the […]

Bat Moms and Lactation

April 17, 2019 0

As the only flying mammals, bat moms find themselves in a unique situation when it comes to lactation. Bat mothers need to provide milk to their offspring. Bat mothers also need to fly to forage […]

Free Sample of the Book Wild Moms

April 10, 2019 0

Have you had a chance to read Wild Moms yet? May is fast approaching, and with it comes Mothers Day – a day to celebrate moms, mom-figures, and motherhood. What better way to celebrate than […]

How Is The Alpha Female Meerkat “Queen” Chosen?

April 3, 2019 1

In cooperatively breeding mammals such as meerkats (as well as naked mole rats, and several social primates) there is a dominant breeding couple – the king and the queen. Other members of the group are […]

How Is Parental Involvement Affected By The Presence of Predators?

March 20, 2019 0

In the animal kingdom, high numbers of predators will inevitably cause some altered behaviour when it comes to parental involvement. Some Parents Choose To Decrease Their Involvement In several nesting bird species, parents decrease their […]

Adoptive Mothers In The Animal Kingdom

March 13, 2019 2

When a non-biological mother takes over complete care of an orphaned infant, it represents a great commitment. Biologically speaking, it doesn’t make sense for a mother to provide an abundance of care to an unrelated […]

Brood Parasitism

March 6, 2019 0

Brood parasitism is a parenting strategy in which birds do not brood their own eggs or tend to their own offspring once those eggs hatch. The eggs are deposited into the nests of other females […]