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studentwise: Fostering Collaboration
by Elizabeth Slocum
laurence kesterson
Assistant Professor of Biology Carolyn Bauer (left) and Daniela Kim ’23 with a cardboard model of a degu. In reality, degus are far smaller, about the size of a hamster.
Daniela Kim ’23, a bioeducation special major from Weston, Fla., worked with Assistant Professor of Biology Carolyn Bauer last summer on a behavioral study of how fostering affects postnatal development of the degu (Octodon degus), a species of social rodent related to guinea pigs and chinchillas. The research team — which also included Krystle Boadi ’23, Sabrina Ellah ’24, and Kaja Arusha ’24 — videotaped the degus and engaged in animal husbandry to see if being fostered with siblings causes less stress than being fostered alone.
studentwise: Fostering Collaboration
by Elizabeth Slocum
Daniela Kim ’23, a bioeducation special major from Weston, Fla., worked with Assistant Professor of Biology Carolyn Bauer last summer on a behavioral study of how fostering affects postnatal development of the degu (Octodon degus), a species of social rodent related to guinea pigs and chinchillas. The research team — which also included Krystle Boadi ’23, Sabrina Ellah ’24, and Kaja Arusha ’24 — videotaped the degus and engaged in animal husbandry to see if being fostered with siblings causes less stress than being fostered alone.
laurence kesterson
Assistant Professor of Biology Carolyn Bauer (left) and Daniela Kim ’23 with a cardboard model of a degu. In reality, degus are far smaller, about the size of a hamster.