TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Submitted by afeeney t3_ynwj0l on November 6, 2022 at 5:27 PM in todayilearned 160 comments 3,105
_Internet_Hugs_ t1_ivndkhc wrote on November 9, 2022 at 5:30 AM Apparently when I was born I grabbed on to the doctor's thumb and wouldn't let go. My mom quotes him as saying, "Nurse, get this kid off me!" Permalink 1
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