One thing bugging me about this story though. If they want to figure out the role of the parent why didn't they remove the parent? All this experiment will 'prove' is what happens when a parent abuses its kids.
May be this is second phase. the first phase proves that for ko-yu, parents have high priority than food. Next trial may be how does it goes when ko-yu is rejected from their parents.
BaronMind said: Still would be interesting to know what a koyukkuri would do with no parent around... or maybe they tried that and it just freaked out and died.
I recall more than several series posted in OYP already with that premise, and most of them ended the same way you described...
I think the point of the experiment wasn't to find the role of the parents but to prove they are always needed and can't be remplaced.
To be honest, I believe this koreimu is extra needy to the point of being an actual problem, even if she had parents, I mean a baby that won't eat her food just because she was less than a minute away of the touch of her mother? That's troublesome even in yukkuri standars.
And his story encapsulated the spirit of this title more, since this story so far seems more on abyusing the koyukkuri in the name of SCIENCE rather than an actual scientific experiment.
Skribulous said: I miss Kodokueajy. He had brilliant ideas.
And his story encapsulated the spirit of this title more, since this story so far seems more on abyusing the koyukkuri in the name of SCIENCE rather than an actual scientific experiment.
To begin with, we set the shocks to occur around once every ten minutes. But after each shock, the baby yukkuri continued to stick tightly to the model.
Afterwards, we increased the frequency of the shocks, until it reached once per three minutes. Even so, the baby yukkuri continued her looping actions of "get shocked----pain----get away from the model----press up against the model----get shocked"Even though she received a shock, the baby yukkuri didn't seem to understand that "pain" and "rub rub" were related. After trembling for a while, once the pain was gone, the baby yukkuri drew close to the model once more.The electric shock didn't seem to cause the baby yukkuri to reject [the model]. The sudden moment of suffering didn't seem to register in her paste brain.
As before, the baby yukkuri unhesitatingly pressed tightly against the model's belly and continued to rub rub.The model was electrified, and as soon as it was replaced the baby yukkuri immediately cuddled up to it. But the sudden electric shock caused a strong trauma to the baby yukkuri and she shrieked.
Baby yukkuris are by nature a sensitive life form. This shock used the lowest current we could manage, but it still caused a sizeable trauma to her.