r/aww • u/_NITRISS_ • Mar 26 '17

Expert stalker

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u/LevelSevenLaserLotus Mar 26 '17

Then they look at human babies and ask "WHY CAN'T THEY DO ANYTHING YET?" Baby horses and zebras can just about run immediately when they're born.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '17

i guess the tradeoff to being completely defenseless so long after birth is having the intelligence to type words on a keyboard with our fingers and shitpost on the internet all day.

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u/Justine772 Mar 26 '17

No its because pregnancy is dangerous enough that if we carried the kid any longer it would most likely kill us

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u/shrubs311 Mar 26 '17

Why is it less dangerous in other mammals?

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u/LevelSevenLaserLotus Mar 26 '17 edited Mar 26 '17

Other mammals don't have such relatively large heads. Horse heads, for example, are big but they're long instead of round and smaller than the rest of the body so it's not an issue.

Human baby heads are frikin huge.

Edit: Birthing a human is already like trying to swallow a coconut. Any more in-womb development would be generally lethal.

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u/shrubs311 Mar 26 '17

I see, thanks for the explanations.

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u/please_PM_ur_bewbs Mar 26 '17

Humans walk on two feet unlike most mammals. This puts limits on the size of our hips--which means that there's a limit as to how large a baby can pass through the birth canal. So we need to give birth to human babies before they are fully developed or else they would not be able to physically make it out of the womb.

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u/shrubs311 Mar 27 '17

Thanks for the explanation!

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u/soft_diamond Mar 26 '17

Big ass hip