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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 727811" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>There's another one like this, from veterinary science:</p><p></p><p>Occasionally a baby horse (foal) is born with neonatal maladjustment syndrome, commonly called a "dummy foal". They don't know how to nurse, seem to be blind, and have no instinct to find their mothers to or do anything a horse needs to do to survive.</p><p></p><p>Some live with intensive medical treatment, but many died.</p><p></p><p>Then, I don't remember where, a smart veterinarian got a very smart idea: they tied ropes around a "dummy" foal's body and pulled and squeezed HARD to simulate the pressure and pain of being squeezed through the mother's pelvis.</p><p></p><p>The foal fell deeply asleep, slept for about half an hour, and then woke back up. When it woke up, it staggered to its feet, and miraculously, could see and immediately started looking for its first meal.</p><p></p><p>Turns out baby horses NEED the pain of being squeezed through the birth canal for their brains to wake up properly from the quasi-sleep of last few weeks before birth. If the birth is too EASY, the foal can suffer ill effects.</p><p></p><p>The moral of the story: Having it too easy sometimes isn't the best thing for development.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 727811, member: 1963"] There's another one like this, from veterinary science: Occasionally a baby horse (foal) is born with neonatal maladjustment syndrome, commonly called a "dummy foal". They don't know how to nurse, seem to be blind, and have no instinct to find their mothers to or do anything a horse needs to do to survive. Some live with intensive medical treatment, but many died. Then, I don't remember where, a smart veterinarian got a very smart idea: they tied ropes around a "dummy" foal's body and pulled and squeezed HARD to simulate the pressure and pain of being squeezed through the mother's pelvis. The foal fell deeply asleep, slept for about half an hour, and then woke back up. When it woke up, it staggered to its feet, and miraculously, could see and immediately started looking for its first meal. Turns out baby horses NEED the pain of being squeezed through the birth canal for their brains to wake up properly from the quasi-sleep of last few weeks before birth. If the birth is too EASY, the foal can suffer ill effects. The moral of the story: Having it too easy sometimes isn't the best thing for development. [/QUOTE]
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