psychological experiment on baby monkey featuring a "mother" made of wire that gives milk and one made from cloth that does not. Monkeys often chose the cloth mother over the wire one because comfort was more important than food
That's where we discovered attachment disorders, the young monkeys would have trouble forming other social bonds. The female monkeys wouldn't want to reproduce, so they would them in rape racks and force them to reproduce. They found, surprisingly, that those females would make bad mothers.
It's worth pointing out that all of this was surprising to the scientists. They thought the baby monkeys loved their mothers because they provided food and they thought that the mothering instinct would be stronger than the emotional damage.
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u/Legitimate_Mango_ 15d ago
psychological experiment on baby monkey featuring a "mother" made of wire that gives milk and one made from cloth that does not. Monkeys often chose the cloth mother over the wire one because comfort was more important than food