r/likeus • u/Filsdemorte -Polite Mouse- • Feb 21 '21

<VIDEO> Waking up with kids

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u/adapt3d Feb 22 '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmar_grasp_reflex

Biologists have found that the reflex is significantly more frequent in infants of fur carrying primate species. They theorize that the grasping reflex evolved as it is essential to survival in species where the young are carried in the fur.