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[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)

Kangaroos do the same. To be fair, evolutionarily it makes sense. (They only do it when they have literally no escape, and the choice is either both of them dying or the kid dying, soo…)

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

I bet in pre-history it happened more often than not in humans, and within recorded history has likely happened more times than anyone would admit.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

eeeh our whole evolutionary niche is to be so social that we'll form bonds with a literal rock, i can't see the vast vast vast majority of mentally healthy humans managing to do it, more likely they'd try to gently throw the child away from the danger and sacrifice themselves.

[–] prettybunnys 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Plenty of anecdotal stories of infant brothers and sisters not making it through hiding during the holocaust because of muffling their cries.

I don’t care enough to ruin my day by validating a of them though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, but I don't think this was intentional suffocation of the kids. This seems much more as an attempt to get everyone to survive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I read that parents ate some kids during famines. Could be bullshit though, I don’t want to look.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's true. There are various witnesses of the Shoa who absolutely did testify this happened. I actually spoke to one of them in school - during highschool two survivors of the holocaust did come to my (German) highschool and talked about what they went through, extremely nice people with extremely horrible stories.

One of them explained how they hid in an abandoned building and how the mother of the other family hiding with them choked their 8 week old baby when there was a official patrol nearby and they had to stay quiet. Didn't help, they got caught shortly after and as far as we were told none of the other family made it.

The worst thing? It's one of the "less gruesome" stories the whole Holocaust has...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

oh you can validate them real easy: it's anecdotal, thus false until actually proven.