Wild moms: motherhood in the animal kingdom

Introduction

Development is diverse

The egg-content conundrum

Brood parasitism : an inconvenient truth

Cooperative creeds and communal cliques

Buns 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.