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Red_AtNight t1_jegrzgt wrote

All living things have instinct that they are born with. Even supposedly "helpless" creatures like human babies. Yes, you need to do a lot to take care of a newborn baby, but a newborn is born with certain instincts that allow it to survive. For instance, if you put a nipple (or a bottle) in a newborn's mouth, it will instinctively suck on it. If newborns didn't have that instinct, they wouldn't be able to eat.

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the-shadow-cat t1_jegti1f wrote

I've seen 3 months old babies that fall in water and start to swim to the surface and then turn on their back and float. That is instinct to me...

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