Is love in the air?

The doctor is in … love.

W it like to be partnered to a physician? After more than 13 years, answering that question should be simple, since conventional wisdom states that 10,000 hours devoted to any pursuit now qualifies you as an expert. That said, I must regretfully confess I have no idea what it’s like to be the spouse of a doctor. Ray Joseph has been pursuing medicine as long as I’ve known him, so in a very real ...

When Love Is in the Air: Understanding Why Dogs Tend to Mate when It Rains

Seasonality of reproduction is observed in many species of organisms, across taxa, and is influenced by both biotic and abiotic factors. While such seasonality is easy to understand in temperate species exposed to extreme climates, it is more difficult to explain in the tropics. In many tropical species offspring are born during the season of high precipitation, which also coincides with high r...

Love is in the air : sociality and pair bondedness influence sifaka reproductive 1 signalling

15 Social complexity, often estimated by group size, is seen as driving the complexity of vocal 16 signals, but its relation to olfactory signals, that arguably arose to function in nonsocial realms, 17 remains underappreciated. That olfactory signals also may mediate within-group interaction, may 18 vary with social complexity, and may promote social cohesion underscores a potentially crucial ...

When Love Is Lacking

A family can face a crisis as soon as the first child is born. Some mothers are unable to accept their babies and suffer a severe post-birth depression. Betty Moggs remembers the feelings of guilt and hopelessness that she experienced after the birth of her son. Belinda walked through the door of the ward to be met by a sea of eyes, some disinterested, some with a glimmer of hope and some lifel...

Love in the Time of Corona