At one hour thirty minutes after birth, the baby yukkuri who had been sleeping tightly against the model began to show signs of weakening. Her dough skin lost its elasticity, became wrinkled, and her breathing quickened. Her expression became agonized. These are probably signs of a nutritional deficiency due to not eating in time. But what we don't understand is that food is nearby. Why is it then, that from the moment she was born until now, the baby yukkuri hadn't touched the food before her eyes?Yuyu... Yuyu... Eajy......It wasn't until one hour and forty-eight minutes after birth that the baby yukkuri discovered there was prepared food right by it. So she slowly moved over to the food pile. Our video recorder took some interesting footage: the food was right before her, but the baby yukkuri hesitated and turned back, spinning to glance at the model yukkuri, and even went backwards at one point, looking like she was planning to return to rub rubbing with the model instead of eating!
Is that to say, the attraction of the food really doesn't measure up to this unmoving fake manjuu?Using previously calculated schedules of feedings by parent yukkuris, we established a schedule for the automatic feed dispenser. According to our previous research. Within the 24 hours after the baby yukkuri was first born, the parent yukkuris fed them once every 5-10 minutes.
Because of this the feed dispenser automatically dumped out food every 8 minutes. The food consisted of things found in the diet of wild yukkuris: a mix of grass leaves, insects, and wild fruits. These should be able to gurantee the healthy development of the baby yukkuri.