In the idealized world, I only trust fellow apes in raising human babies, in the serious world, I trust no animal (apes included) to do so, even less Yukkuris.
Besides, there is the whole thing that the adoptive yu parents will probably die of old before the kid reached independence and maturity, unless it's a Dosu, and even then I wouldn't trust a Dosu on this, no yu would be able to do the job out of dying too early, even less have the mental capacity of taking care of a creature as complex as a human.
All stories about dogs/wolves/apes raising human babies are either frauds or fictional.
The most likely scenario would be : The baby starts crying, the yukkuris can't figure what to do and either abandon it to die or crush it to death themselves.
yukiyuzen said: All stories about dogs/wolves/apes raising human babies are either frauds or fictional.
The most likely scenario would be : The baby starts crying, the yukkuris can't figure what to do and either abandon it to die or crush it to death themselves.
Nature isn't very nice.
Pretty Much why the best scenario is for the yu's to be smart enough to realize they should bring the baby to some human who would know what to do with him/her.
JusticeItEasy said: Pretty Much why the best scenario is for the yu's to be smart enough to realize they should bring the baby to some human who would know what to do with him/her.
That would be the "ideal" scenario. Claiming that it would be the "best" scenario implies that its within the realm of possibility.
yukiyuzen said: All stories about dogs/wolves/apes raising human babies are either frauds or fictional.
Easier to accept, although less romantic. Wondering though, can a human survive being raised in the wild like animals ? Even in a yukkuri "family friendly" setting (abundance of food, no competition/threat), there's still much things modern human could think as impossible for a child to grow up in, even with help of animals.
Arguably in some aspects yukkuri is sturdier than human.
Salem said: Easier to accept, although less romantic. Wondering though, can a human survive being raised in the wild like animals ? Even in a yukkuri "family friendly" setting (abundance of food, no competition/threat), there's still much things modern human could think as impossible for a child to grow up in, even with help of animals.
Arguably in some aspects yukkuri is sturdier than human.
Even if you keep the whole thing in a "family friendly" setting, unless you have Anon hiding in the shadows leaving human baby food around the forest for the yukkuris to find and feed the baby, common sense dictates that the baby would starve to death because it can't eat raw flowers, bitter grass, uncooked mushrooms, worms, insects or drink water without assistance.
I mean, if the baby is raised by animal, not necessarily yukkuri. But yes, there's still a lot of problem about food. Besides, without teeth, a lot of food will be too difficult to eat.
If animals in fictions can raise human babies then why yukkuris can't? All of them are fictional after all. Some species could have extraordinarily high intelligence, and some are bodied.
In my opinion, yukkuris are more than buns -- they are talking, crawling buns. I always think that they're something like fairies (in Touhou sense), active, curious and kind-of stupid creatures. Though sometimes they play pranks (very bad and anger-inducing pranks) doesn't it suggest that they may possess intelligence in some extent?
Well, in the worst case, the talking, crawling buns are food, too.