An interesting little series. I am a little peeved at the argument that she is too needy. She is a newborn. I don't expect newborns to be able to do much beyond react to some external stimuli and make very basic communication with their parent yu. I wasn't surprised in the slightest that the parent model is the complete center of the ko's attention. Yukkuris, as much as or more so than humans, need a central figure in their young lives.
It is needy compared to other baby yu's who can deattach themselves 2 minutes of their parents to eat, this one shows a compulsive need to remain GLUED to the parental figure to the point of sacrificing precious eating time between hesitation of leaving behind the parental figure and running back quickly after 1 bite or 2, that's far from a heatlhy mental state, even for a baby.
It's, really troublesome, if this was a real wild scenario, the parents would need to do something to prevent her to grow up as someone incapable of physically leave the side of their parents.
So? Babies of real animals (us included) freak out the moment they leave their parent's side. They grow out of it.
The mother yukkuri never leaves the nest anyway, and she's typically responsible for feeding the babies. It actually makes sense for the kos to be conditioned to stick close, given what happens any time they don't...
1 thing is sticking close, another is being glued to them. Again, the baby took a long time to go eat the food that wasn't too faraway of her parental figure out of hesitation, and she didn't even take time to eat properly since a few seconds later she dashed back while crying out like if the parental figure had just dissappeared. Also mother yu's sometimes leave their nests, even more if they are single mothers and not always they go and bring the babies with themselves.
This is far from being an average baby yu's attitude, something is seriously wrong here, to the point of coming out as needy. "Doing asshole things for science" jokes aside, I would actually worry a lot if I saw a baby yu acting like this, specially after seeing other babies not be glued to their mothers without a good reason and being more than willing to go eating without a single worry.
I'm starting to wonder if the lack of a greeting may had an enormous negative effect in the baby, leading to any potential "confidence" and "lack of fear" being completely crushed out of not having the greeting to reassure her, so now we have a baby yu incapable of anything out of fear needing to remain glued to her parental figure.
She also never had the chance to do first greeting. Real wild yukkuri parents will help the baby if they're hurt by the fall and they do greeting. The greeting is very important to yukkuri after all. That could account for the increased anxiousness and need for parental affection.
Kinda glad I'm not the only one who saw the lack of greeting as a serious problem.
I really think that the experiment was ruined the moment they forgot to include some recordings to play a greeting or stock phrases. The effects are being clearly shown by the baby's behaviour.
JusticeItEasy said: Kinda glad I'm not the only one who saw the lack of greeting as a serious problem.
I really think that the experiment was ruined the moment they forgot to include some recordings to play a greeting or stock phrases. The effects are being clearly shown by the baby's behaviour.
Yeah, I also believe that the lack of greeting may have screwed with her development. Her speech hasnt progressed much.
Admittedly, this test surpassed the baby yukkuri's endurance a little......YUYU.... YUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...... YUYUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!After putting on the cover, the baby yukkuri still dove in unhesitatingly to rub rub with her "parent yukkuri." But, as expected, the rought and course fabric immediately left scratches on the baby yukkuri's delicate dough skin......After a day of electric shocks, the baby yukkuri's reliance on her "parent yukkuri" still had not diminished. The continued shocks kept the baby yukkuri in agony, but she always went back to use "rub rub" to comfort herself.
After each shock, the contact with her "parent yukkuri" diminished her unease.....YUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!So we once again changed stimulus. We removed the electric wire from the model and put on a covering made of coarse fabric.
We would like to observe if an extremely uncomfortable "rub rub" would allow the baby yukkuri to continue to rely on her parent yukkuri.