by Maggie Potter | Oct 20, 2023 | Animal Tales for Kids, Parental care
They say the early bird gets the worm, but what about chicks still in the nest? How do parents decide which chick to feed? Researchers at the Institute for Game and Wildlife Research in Spain set out to answer this question for pied flycatchers, a small songbird found...
by Justine Cole | Oct 17, 2023 | Parental care
Often, infants and young children misbehave, don’t follow rules, and generally make one question how much energy goes into raising them. However, for humans it is often the joys of raising a child that encourages reproduction. Reproduction is a very energy depleting...
by Gabi Cruz | Oct 26, 2021 | Parental care
To most humans, consuming another individual of the same species, much less one’s own children is deemed unthinkable. You might even consider from an evolutionary standpoint, isn’t this behavior pointless or destructive? However, to the amphibian species known as A....
by Macy Reimbold | Nov 11, 2020 | Parental care
Dairy cows are more motivated to reunite with their calves if their calves have been suckled, meaning that their young have nursed from the mother cow’s udders. This is most likely due to the fact that oxytocin, a hormone that is involved in the bond between the...
by Mattheus Santos | Nov 9, 2020 | Parental care, Social behavior
Many primates including monkeys live in highly developed social environments and interact via communication with one another in social groups. These social behaviors displayed are shown through both friendly affiliative and aggressive/submissive agonistic ways. Yet at...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Parental care
By David Han ’21 Nursing as a part of maternal care has long been considered the exclusive domain of mammals, at least in popular media. Most invertebrate mothers, the popular wisdom goes, employ an extreme version of tough love; newly-hatched insects and...
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