I don't think this is the case of that, we still need the translation to confirm anything, but I believe this are all the other "subjects" of the experiment and their outcomes, incluiding groups of babies instead of just 1 and all that.
Supposedly this should prove that true parental figures are necessary, nevermind the researchers didn't try to completely emulate a fake parental figure through recorded stock phrase, more positive stimulus, or outright remplace the yukkuri parental figure with a human. So yeah, it's a bit biased toward the "PARENTS OR SHIT HAPPENS", considering that something as fundamental as "The Greeting" is outright ignored in favor of putting electricity or sharp stuff in the paternal figure doll...
Trying to prove a parental figure is necessary by providing a 'broken' one instead is a strawman argument. They've done a great job of showing what happens when you get a mute Deibu to raise a baby and not much else.
For an unbiased test either remove the parental figure entirely (factory style) or provide one that has nothing to do with yukkuri (pet owner style).
I don't think the experiments within this story are entirely without merit, and there's some real-world experiments that were in a similar vein. The substitute parent in this story reminds me of the 'wire mother' experiments Harry Harlowe performed on monkeys. For those not familiar, the gist of it is that baby monkeys were put in a room with a wire mother and a cloth mother, and overwhelmingly they preferred to cling to the comforting cloth mother, even when the only source of food in the room was a bottle attached to the cold wire mother.
The reactions of the koyukkuris in this story breaks my suspension of disbelief though. I know that the finer points of yukkuri behavior can vary from author to author, but this story seems to contradict itself. I have a hard time believing that the same koyukkuri that would tolerate severe pain just to keep rub-rubbing would suffer such a spectacular breakdown from getting puffed at once.
The experiments are not very scientifically rigorous. No control group, too many variables are introduced, and based on the commentary the scientist is drawing conclusions and modifying the experiment while still gathering the results. It is useful in that it demonstrates a consistent result from specific courses of action but because of the lack of rigor only a general conclusions can be drawn from the experiment. As a result more koyukkuri will need to be unnecessarily used as test subjects because of the poor experiment design and protocols.
It sure doesn't help that the experiment lacks a lot of important "Yukkuri only" factors that would help to achieve the best situation and best reaction, leading to better defined and more "nature fitting" conclusions.
The lacks of such things just makes the whole experiment to be incomplete and already destined to "negative outcomes" which basically corrupts the results of the research.
It's always the Chinese comics. Their logic gets inconsistent and I'm not sure why.
Then again, as scientific as this series tries to present itself, it's clearly not interested in the science. It's about the yukkuri that suffer in the process.
Ah, so the story ends as I expected it to. Reminds me of a story I heard from a friend once. There was a group of orphans growing up in Russia. They were given adequate food, education, and shelter. But, years later, as adults they were interviewed. Most exhibited behavior including: hugging themselves, slowly rocking back and forth, vacant stares, and a general negative disposition. Their description matched the one of the test with the monkeys, specifically the test monkey that was provided a fake mother made out of metal. Even though the fake mother had milk, the baby monkey refused to go to it, and instead stayed in a corner, slowly rocking, back and forth. All in all, I like this comic. Shows another method I would like to use on yukkuris. Because while I could tear their flesh, devour their paste, rape their offspring, its NOT ENOUGH. NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH. It takes too much to heal them, too long, too fragile. But to ravage their MIND. That is the greatest pleasure. Adding to that, is my sense of empathy. I can usually feel the emotions of others around me, as my own. So I can FEEL a baby yukkuri from the inside as I menacce it from the outside. To feel the mix of terror and ecstasy ridden pleasure, is beyond expression.
I wonder what grade a teacher would give a student today for emotionally torturing and eventually killing a newborn animal and then writing a paper on it.
This kind of experiments just makes me wonder "Are anons in yukkuri world really that dumb or I am the dumb one?", because I seriously cant see a point it this kind of experiment, they just abusing it to the point or breakdown for what I can only assume be test possible abuse techniques for commercial use or "how much it can take", which is dumb by itself, because every yukkuri is different (watch code geass emperor's speech)
I think the whole deal was maybe some sort of attempt of going against pet yu caring or trying to understand yukkuri family dynamics and how their lack of it affects the koyukkuri. While the idea may have merit out of research and understanding yukkuris better, it's just that, "a good idea for a research", the method and way of researching this is stupid, badly done and outright ignores well known yukkuri factors that should had been considered to achieve the best outcome without dooming the specimen since day 1.
This experiment was doomed to fail the moment the researcher didn't attempt to try to make the "substitute parent" be as good as possible and try to see if the yukkuri is affected positively or negatively by this substitute parent.
The scientists of this shitfest discovered that yukkuris, know for being extremely social creature's with strong bonds with their family and friends will develop mental problems and erratic personality for being neglected and not receiving the greeting "take it easy" The phrase for them is a way of telling them that someone loves them and they are not alone in this world
"Harry Harlow and his colleagues go on torturing… decade after decade, invariably proving what we all knew in advance—that social creatures can be destroyed by destroying their social ties."
"Harry Harlow and his colleagues go on torturing… decade after decade, invariably proving what we all knew in advance—that social creatures can be destroyed by destroying their social ties."
But hey at least this was for the good of all science about discovering something we already know!!!!
The other tested baby yukkuris had basically the same situation. After two weeks, some of the baby yukkuris showed symptoms of anti-yukkuritis and died from vomiting their filling. Some violently screamed and yelled, and others became depressed and pressed their faces against the walls of the aquarium.
In summation, all of the tested baby yukkuris' individual results as far as deaths and emotional degradation are all recorded in the file.What was outside of the test workers' expectation was, when we gathered the few remaining living baby yukkuris together, they actually started to attack and kill each other.
In the end, of the 200 baby yukkuris tested, only 13 lived. And of the remaining 13, all were dead within 3 days after the experiment ended.The "Inflation gu gu" experiment had only been conducted once, but it had the most severe impact on the baby yukkuri. Afterwards, we continued to introduce adequate food, but the koyukkuri stopped moving and huddled in one of the corners of the aquarium without eating or drinking......This situation continued for 36 hours. We took the baby yukkuri out of the aquarium and discovered she had already died. Her short two-week life was over.