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Wild moms : motherhood in the animal kingdom / Dr. Carin Bondar.

Wild moms : motherhood in the animal kingdom / Dr. Carin Bondar.
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ISBN 9781681776651 (hardback)
Name Bondar, Carin author.
Title Wild moms : motherhood in the animal kingdom / Dr. Carin Bondar.
Edition First Pegasus Books edition.
Published New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
©2018.
Description xi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes "April 2018"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-256) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Development Is Diverse -- 2.The Egg-Content Conundrum -- 3.Brood Parasitism: An Inconvenient Truth -- 4.Cooperative Creeds and Communal Cliques -- 5.Buns in Mammalian Ovens -- 6.A Pregnant Pause -- 7.A Child Is Born -- 8.Newborns and Nightmares -- 9.Depression and Abuse: Not Just a Human Predicament -- 10.Mammal Moms and Milk -- 11.Opportunistic Orphans and Magnanimous Moms -- 12.Other Mothers: Adoption and Allomothering -- 13.The Meaning of Weaning -- 14.Menopausing Moms and Gracious Grandmas -- 15.Mothers in Mourning.
Summary "Being a mom is a tough job--but imagine doing it in the jungle or out on the safari, faced by the ravages of the elements, a scarcity of resources and the threat of predators prowling at all times of the day and night. In Wild Moms, Dr. Carin Bondar takes readers on an enthralling tour of the animal kingdom as she explores the phenomenon of motherhood in the wild. A journey through motherhood for the animal kingdom--from the initial phases of gestation and pregnancy through breastfeeding and toddler-rearing and trying to parent a teenager through empty nest syndrome (which, in many of these cases, is quite literal!) to being a grandmother. In Wild Moms, Dr. Bondar answers a whole host of questions about the animal kingdom: How do moms in the animal kingdom cope with crying babies and potty training? How does breastfeeding work in the wild--particularly when a mother is nursing not one baby at a time, but a whole litter? If children with disabilities do not fit into Darwin's theory of evolution (I.e. Survival of the fittest), then why do we see mothers from various mammalian groups providing ongoing care to disabled offspring? Accessible and entertaining, Wild Moms is a celebration of moms everywhere--and a book guaranteed to make readers think about motherhood in an entirely new way." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects Parental behavior in animals
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