Clues from animals on why babies cry

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 10, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Carl Zimmer
International Herald Tribune
03-10-2005
Parents of wailing babies, take comfort: You are not alone. Chimpanzee babies fuss. Sea gull chicks squawk. Burying beetle larvae tap their parents' legs. Throughout the animal kingdom, babies know how to get their parents' attention. Exactly why evolution has produced all this fussing, squawking and tapping is a question many biologists are trying to answer. Someday, that answer may shed some light on the mystery of crying in human babies. ''It may point researchers in the right direction to find the causes of excessive crying,'' said ...

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