I’m watching a documentary and noticed how chill great ape babies are. They’re quite content just holding onto their mom, and you never see them crying in the same shrill, oftentimes excessive way human babies do.
Swaddled wrong? Cry. Gassy? Cry. Hungry? Cry. Too full? Throw up, then cry.
What gives?
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Well, there are good reasons in the comments, but have you considered this ones?
– We’ve lost our basic understanding of mimicry, body language and scent/pheromones. Usually a cry from a baby is a VERY urgent allarm. We don’t catch the early signals, like restlessness, groping around, moving the lips ( this means the baby would like to eat)
– For primates we spend an incredible amount of time not being around our offspring. We’re just so busy and/or distracted.
– Skin to skin, mama’s scent( pheromones) are whats comforts the baby, yet we cover the baby in latera of thick fabric and use copious amounts of products that mask our natural scent.
And probably so much more
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