Why do human babies cry so much as opposed to chimpanzee or gorilla babies?

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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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also, due to walking upright, narrower pelvises (which is why childbirth is so dangerous) it means the pregnancy time had to be shorter than they should be. because if they got any bigger it would kill the mother. our babies come out waaaaay under-developed in comparison a giraffe, which can walk and feed itself the same day its born

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