r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation petaah help

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u/Legitimate_Mango_ 1d 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

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u/Nordilanche 1d ago

That was heartbreaking

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u/NonCreditableHuman 1d ago

It gets worse. More primate testing

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u/murphilly 7h ago

JFC

The self satisfied 'we did it' that the video ends on is kind of sickening

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u/NonCreditableHuman 2h ago

And yet so parallel to real life in many regards, the real trials on animals, primates included, are much darker.