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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by bhnmmhmd on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:56AM (#15009024)
Just as one example, please watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMQFdJXS2Gk

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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by PhasmaFelis on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:52PM (#15010212)
That's cute, but it's hardly typical.
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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by gonvaled on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:37PM (#15010022)
Genes randomly failing, or maybe subtle calculation that an adult monkey is more food than a baby monkey.
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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by PhasmaFelis on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:00AM (#15034643)
It's pretty interesting, really. Mammals in general have a strong instinct to recognize and protect the traits that characterize infants (disproportionately large head/eyes, high-pitched vocalization, etc), which is where we get our concept of "cute", and why cats and dogs will sometimes be extremely tolerant and protective of human children who are much bigger than they are. Occasionally, the instinct is a little too strong and overrides survival traits like "eat that delicious baby." It happens often enough to be well-documented, but it's really not the norm.
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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by bhnmmhmd on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:13PM (#15011000)
Are we actually talking about animals now? I don't think we should digress from the main subject here.
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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by gonvaled on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:22PM (#15014303)
You brought it up?!
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