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The emperor's embrace : reflections on animal families and fatherhood / by Masson, J. Moussaieff(Jeffrey Moussaieff),1941-(CARDINAL)330090;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239).
Subjects: Parental behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The evolution of fatherhood : a celebration of animal and human families / by Masson, J. Moussaieff(Jeffrey Moussaieff),1941-(CARDINAL)330090;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-239) and index.
Subjects: Parental behavior in animals.; Parenting.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mother nature : animal parents and their young / by Savage, Candace,1949-(CARDINAL)318623;
Includes bibliographical references (page) and index.
Subjects: Parental behavior in animals.; Animals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Parent birds and their young / by Skutch, Alexander F.(Alexander Frank),1904-2004.(CARDINAL)319595;
Bibliography: pages 463-483."A detailed survey ... of the family life and reproductive behavior of birds, from the formation of pairs to the young birds' attainment of independence."
Subjects: Birds; Parental behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wild moms : motherhood in the animal kingdom / by Bondar, Carin,author.(CARDINAL)627807;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-256) and index.Development is diverse -- The egg-content conundrum -- Brood parasitism : an inconvenient truth -- Cooperative creeds and communal cliques -- Bun in mammalian ovens -- A pregnant pause -- A child is born -- Newborns and nightmares -- Depression and abuse : not just a human predicament -- Mammal moms and milk -- Opportunistic orphans and magnanimous moms -- Other mothers : adoption and allomothering -- The meaning of weaning -- Menopausing moms and gracious grandmas -- Mothers in mourning -- Afterword.A fascinating and entertaining tour of motherhood in the animal kingdom that reveals a new perspective on the mother/child relationship."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"--
Subjects: Parental behavior in animals.; Animals;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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The love of baby animals / by Burton, Robert,1941-(CARDINAL)142085;
Subjects: Animals; Parental behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Amiable little beasts : investigating the lives of young animals by Guilfoyle, Ann.(CARDINAL)152880; Caras, Roger A.(CARDINAL)139090; Graham, Steve.(CARDINAL)516791;
Subjects: Animals; Parental behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A natural history of parenting : from emperor penguins to reluctant ewes, a naturalist looks at parenting in the animal world and ours / by Allport, Susan.(CARDINAL)332813;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.I. The Reluctant Ewe -- II. Parenting Across the Biological Spectrum -- III. Father Wolf, Mother Bear -- Who Cares? -- IV. The Art of Nesting -- V. Egg Layers and Live Birthers -- VI. Birth and Hatching -- Emergence -- VII. Whose Child Is This? -- VIII. Nesters, Cachers, Carriers, and Followers -- IX. The Evolution of Love -- X. The Limits of Devotion.In A Natural History of Parenting, Susan Allport, a naturalist and science writer, explores the exciting and often startling dynamics of maternal and paternal behavior among the species. When one of the ewes Allport was raising refused to mother her new lamb, she was forced to reconsider many of her preconceptions about the world of parenting. She began to explore the roots of parental instincts across the broad spectrum of the animal kingdoms. In A Natural History of parenting, she examines the awesome diversity of nature to reveal what we share with insects, birds, and other animals, and, just as important, how we differ from them. Allport's study takes the reader from caves in Texas filled with twenty million bats to huge tanks of beluga whales at the New York Aquarium, from the icy reaches of East Greenland where Arctic wolves raise their young to ant nests where huge labor pools have led to primitive infant care. Along the way, she gathers research on myriad creatures - beavers and wasps, birds and elephants, frogs and humans - to show us a magnificent variety of parental behavior among species, from a male emperor penguin forgoing nourishment to spend weeks protecting an egg balanced on the top of his feet to the manifestations of the human female's "nesting instinct."
Subjects: Parental behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Hey, daddy! : animal fathers and their babies / by Batten, Mary.(CARDINAL)265485; Bon, Higgins,illustrator.(CARDINAL)667728; Bon, Higgins.(CARDINAL)667728; Bond, Higgins,illustrator.(CARDINAL)317567;
Introduces the important roles that some animal fathers play in the development of their offspring, with examples of specific kinds of birds, mammals, and other creatures that thrive under a father's care.AD640LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Parental behavior in animals.; Parental behavior in animals;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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Nursery earth : the wondrous lives of baby animals and the extraordinary ways they shape our world / by Staaf, Danna,author.(CARDINAL)416986;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-251) and index.Introduction: A world of the babies, by the babies, for the babies -- Bundles of joy. Eggs: not just a bird thing -- Provisioning: from edible siblings to algal life-support -- Brooding eggs: carry them, sit on them, swallow them whole -- Pregnancy: not just a mammal thing -- Salad days. Unaccompanied minors: where do the escargot? -- It's just a phase: why babies look like aliens -- Lessons from larvae: how evolution shaped development and vice versa -- Raising them right: conservation and sustainability -- Coming of age. Metamorphosis: but happier than Kafka -- Juveniles: neither one thing nor another -- Emergence: a cicada case study -- Epilogue: Our quiet dependence on babies."An astonishing safari of infant animals, from baby kangaroos to flamingos to squid, and the essential role they play in Earth's ecosystems"--
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Animals; Animal behavior.; Parental behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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