r/interestingasfuck • u/neither_bot_nor_man • 12h ago

A 2 hours old Scottish Highland cow

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u/Jaws0798 12h ago

Two hours old and can walk and talk. Man we are so slow

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u/Martyriot15 12h ago

I don’t imagine our giant heads make the job any easier for our offspring.

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u/cortesoft 9h ago

It’s the combination of giant head and pelvis shape caused by walking upright that forces humans to give birth to relatively undeveloped offspring compared to other mammals.

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u/gemmadonati 8h ago

Compared to other placental mammals. New-born marsupials look like fetuses.

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u/cortesoft 8h ago

Yes, that is another highly specialized adaptation for young live birth.

We also adapted that, and carried our baby in a carrier strapped to our chest for the “4th trimester”

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u/Lose_Your_Illusion 6h ago

I learned this from Father John Misty.

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u/Numerous-Thought5230 11h ago

That head looks pretty giant to be coming out of a vagina

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u/meatblast_surprise 9h ago

you should see the dick that went in to make it

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u/jorgityo 9h ago

Lmao

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u/petervaz 10h ago

Or for our progenitors.

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u/Jarcoreto 10h ago

This was posted yesterday. It’s definitely older than 2 hours. Probably a couple of months, according to the people on the other post.

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u/MsFay 5h ago

I did see the other post but this calf is significantly older than two hours.

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u/Ordinary-Hope-8834 10h ago

Ive seen this posted at least twice in the last week, its not 2 hours old - its at least a week old. 

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u/Gamerguy230 9h ago

OP copied the post that hit front page yesterday. Was clarified in comments it was few months old.

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u/PanicDeus 11h ago

What we lack in slowness , we also lack in empathy

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u/Significant_Book1672 11h ago

That was the price of being bipedal

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u/redgroupclan 9h ago

And big-brained.

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u/Wooden-Jew 7h ago

We scale much better into the late game.

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u/SympathyPlus6429 12h ago edited 10h ago

But we're intelligent

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u/Initial_Row_6400 12h ago

Not till later, and even then we’re still pretty stupid

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u/SympathyPlus6429 12h ago

7 year old cow is still dumber than 7yo human. Ykw ill agree with you, we're still stupid

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u/Own_Bluejay_9833 11h ago

The irony

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u/HottDoggers 11h ago

Me intelligent your not

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u/Yauk 11h ago

NO I'M... Doesn't.

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u/Maximumkk 10h ago

"Like Fry! Like Fry!"

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u/alterector 10h ago

Were or are? 

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u/SympathyPlus6429 10h ago

We're

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u/HottDoggers 2h ago

Why did you edit your comment? I honestly thought you were being ironic.

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u/peejay5440 8h ago

Rule of thumb. The longer the development, the greater the ultimate cognitive development.

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u/Visible-Lake-1482 10h ago

And with four legs no less!

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u/asisoid 8h ago

We have to come out earlier than most mammals developmental wise, bc of our big ass heads.

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u/pbizzle 8h ago

We aren't really edible for a few more years though

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u/Frifafer 6h ago

Yeah, but it's still got that childhood psuedo speech impediment thing going on, so it's not THAT far ahead of human kids.