SciShow | Why Are Some Animal Babies So Helpless?

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Episode Title: Why Are Some Animal Babies So Helpless?
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Description: Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-15 Have you ever noticed that some animal babies, like baby deer, can walk around basically right after they're born, but other animal babies, like kittens, can't even open their eyes? There’s a reason for that, and it comes down to two different reproductive strategies with their own advantages and disadvantages. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141219-rabbits-hares-animals-science-mating-courtship/ https://allyouneedisbiology.wordpress.com/tag/altricial/ https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Precocial_and_Altricial.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319904393_Altricial https://web.colby.edu/mainebirds/2009/08/06/86/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18222662 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892970/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Superprecocial.html http://meeting.physanth.org/program/2015/session15/rosenberg-2015-are-human-infants-altricial.html https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1471-0528.2002.00010.x https://inference-review.com/article/the-obstetrical-dilemma https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-humans-give-birth-to-helpless-babies/ https://mafiadoc.com/the-importance-of-the-altricial-a-precocial-spectrum-for-social-_5988118d1723ddca69541e7a.html https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=A0HB7Mq4lOYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=altricial+and+precocial&ots=ZcR6OeK3OV&sig=JRx4CAchkoWZhe3uP8cSx_LI8JM#v=onepage&q=altricial%20and%20precocial&f=false https://rubegalab.uconn.edu/lecture-notes-parental-care/#


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