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I may not be a mom, but I still find this pretty amazing: (More can be found in the article below)
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-s-cry-transcends-species
If a mother is out shopping and hears a young child crying out “Mommy!” she will turn around. This will happen almost every single time, even if she knows her children are at home or off at college. This ability to recognize and respond to the distress call of someone else’s offspring isn’t just limited to humans. After noticing that most mammalian babies sound fairly similar when crying, Susan Lingle of the University of Winnipeg performed a study and found that wild deer in Canada will respond to the cries of several mammalian species. The results were published in The American Naturalist.
(Above is a paragraph from IFL Science.)
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