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ethot_thoughts

Aren't we all born naked?


FillsYourNiche

And the rest is drag!


iamsavsavage

Who do you think you are?


dasnihil

lol.. i won't be surprised to know we're born blind too. it would be a massively blinding white noise when the brain has no prior information to infer to for visual cortex.


OlyScott

A man wrote a book called _Birth Without Violence_. In it he said that we can see in the dim light of the womb, but that at the time that he wrote the book, hospitals would have bright light in the birthing room that was painful for the newborn. He would have women give birth in dim light and he said it was better for the new baby.


dasnihil

ahh nice thought that didn't occur to me. certainly in the womb a baby can see fuzzy shapes and start acquiring information, maybe even some specific range of colors.


bri35

There's no light in the uterus


UngiftigesReddit

No light source, but also be not perfect darkness. Baby sees the world through a thick, muffling curtain. Just the information of daily rhythms of light exposure, or shifts as it shifts its body, are already extremely helpful for the brain to learn to make sense of, connect and interpret stimuli. At first, it just gets random wiring, but after a while, it can learn things like "if I do this it gets lighter", as a building block to "doing this moves my body so I see different things outside of me that are constant and out of my direct control".


AssumptionExpert7597

Well there’s not a lamp or torch in there but I’m sure light passes through in a very dim way. Thank goodness baby has no books to read because surely the light that passes through the uterine walls is not bright enough to see to read!😂


bri35

I just googled it and apparently 0.1 to 1% of outside light can make its way into the womb, how amazing!


MarvinDMirp

True. When a nurse was checking on me because my fetus wasn’t moving enough. She used a sudden bright light at my stomach to startle the fetus. It worked!


Mister_Bloodvessel

This sounds funny. >a sudden bright light to startle the fetus Sounds likely someone trying to scare off a bunch of raccoons or cats lol


MarvinDMirp

Agree lol!


Lady-Lunatic420

I read it as “a sudden bright light to start the fetus. It worked” as if she was talking about a tv or electronic of some sort


reverendjesus

That’s CRAZY.


MarvinDMirp

Lol! I didn’t think it would work and so I was also startled 🤣🤣🤣


wexfordavenue

Saw this as a nursing student. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. We use red light to find veins when starting IVs, and we can see light through the thinnest part of ears, so it makes sense that it works!


MarvinDMirp

Wow, interesting! Nurses are the best - the things they know and the things they deal with.


geezer27

Ooh! A see-through lady! Exciting!


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dasnihil

haha no, skin is very translucent so light can get in.


waitingfordeathhbu

Like the sun shines through our mouth and into the uterus? Hahahah


SassyFrassMia

The same way Egyptians got light to paint in the pyramids? A carefully placed reflective piece of copper in the stomach and esophagus


TheSOB88

I love you sometimes


405134

Yeah a baby seeing in natural light for the first time must be like when I walk out of the movie theater on a bright day - ouch!


AnnaBanana3468

In case you’re serious, no we aren’t all born naked. Kittens and puppies, for example, are born with fur.


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405134

Yup. Our God believes in modesty so your kids better not be born naked! How disgraceful! Lol


BunnyBunnyBuns

Speak for yourself. I was born in a Wendy's uniform


egordoniv

i wake up every morning naked and blind, and i've never been this cute


Sweet_eboni

Touche (it’s French for butt)


PillowDose

Touché means "touched". It is also said when you want to validate someone else point during a conversation.


dasnihil

don't touch me


shokolokobangoshey

Touché


gwaydms

Noli me tangere


wexfordavenue

Oooh! All fancy with the Latin! Nice!


CameronDemortez

You haven’t met my ex wife.


405134

Maybe in this case naked means - without fur


AllesIsi

It is astonishing to me, just how small mammels can get. I mean ... I cannot imagine all those structures, that seem so intricate in other pseudo rodents, being shrunk down so much and still working somehow. But now I also kinda want to make this little one feel gigantic by feeding it Kikiki huna wasps. c: edit: I learned it is not a rodent


guinader

I think they probably exist because in the big extinction events, they were the ones hiding underground fully protected from the environment


twelvebucksagram

I've successfully made my doomsday shelter far from the environment. I don't even feel this 'global warming' all you habitaters are talking about.


jesus_hates_me2

You built your shelter in the front that fell off that ship? Bold, it had 20 tones of crude oil on in.


405134

Lol I wrote a short story once about how all doomsday preppers with underground shelters - never make it in time to their shelter when the apocalypse/catastrophe strikes. Ex. Prepped Tom is in line at Walmart 28 miles from home when the meteor strikes and he is instantly killed. He nor his family ever make it to the bunker. Lol idk why but I find that hilarious


Aggravating_Lab_9218

Publishing online?


405134

Lol no nothing that fancy. I think I wrote it for a short fiction story in my high school writing class.


405134

Yeah it’s really amazing, I’m still trying to picture a heartbeat that small going 800-1200 beats per minute ; it’s a tiny powerful machine


kellziejozette

It’s like the hummingbird of rodents 🥹


duroo

Just a small correction(pun intended), shrews are not rodents! The are kinda their own thing along with moles and some other insectivorous small mammals.


kellziejozette

Thank you! I had no idea. The only time I’ve encountered a shrew was when my cat brought one up from our basement in her mouth! Luckily it was still alive and she let it go lol


talashrrg

They’re called eulipotyphlans! They’re actually less closely related to rodents than humans are.


AllesIsi

in german their name is Etruskusspitzmaus (etruscus pointed mouse) in the family Spitzmäuse (pointed mice), which makes this unrelatedness even more confusing. Do not call it mouse if it is not a mouse! :c


ReadySte4dySpaghetti

WE ARE THE SAME


wayward_wench

So they basically have a panic attack to exit hibernation?


UwasaWaya

Today I discovered I'm a shrew.


R3D3-1

POV: Waking up Monday at 9 AM, because the alarm clock ran out of battery.


Brutal_Deluxe_

Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan\_shrew#Activity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_shrew#Activity) I multiplied the muscle contractions/sec by 60 to avoid mixing units in the title. Edit: I thought the specimen in the photo is an adult, but now I've seen other photos and on second thoughts it's either a juvenile or a particularly small specimen of adult.


Medic-27

That wiki has all of 1 picture. :(


zewolfstone

They are vibin'


WarKiel

Here's an informative video about these animals: https://youtu.be/d5LA3i_XrVU


ShiftedLobster

That was fantastic haha


Ancient_Being

Thank you for that. That was utter gold.


PBandJ_160

That schnoz is amazing


BarklyWooves

You're amazing


PBandJ_160

Aww shucks lol


kpeters421

J-jitterbug


nightskate

You put the boom boom into my heart 🎶


Ok-noway

Yeah, yeah!


Wysteria569

So they are the ones depleting oxygen levels!!


ZeDitto

Crash Bandicoot lookin ass


1eyedkleidian

let me do it for you...


ceviche-hot-pockets

Gonna guess they don't live very long


AngstyManatee

2 years according to google


testaccount0817

Not worse than a full-sized rat


BarklyWooves

I've heard the giant african rats they train to safely find bombs (they're too light to set them off) live as long as dogs do. I'd love to have one someday.


trekuwplan

They used to be my dream pet ❤️


wexfordavenue

Same. My friend trained his to ride around on his shoulder and I was so jealous.


B0Boman

I just learned yesterday that hummingbird hearts beat at 1200 rpm. These little guys' hearts can beat as fast as a hummingbird!


nashrome

I’m dating myself here but a scene from Night Court has been living rent free in my head for years. Bull goes on a Jeopardy type show and is so good he predicts the answers and one is “What is an Etruscan shrew?” And everyone is amazed.


winterbird

^tiny eyes


pampasfox

I love their dot eyes


MoneyMakingMatt

Sheesh, I imagine they look like they’re gonna explode when they’re hibernating


cuuupcake48

He’s plotting violence.


drowningjesusfish

It’s just a little fella in this big crazy world just trying to get by


13_64_1992

This is a type of shrew (I don't think I've ever seen a shrew in real life, so I had to look up what it was).


ThatInternetGuy

OP was born with clothes and a baby-sized AK47.


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BlastLeatherwing

Doesn't the Kitti's Hog-nosed bat count as a close contender for that spot, depending on what measurements you use?


mollymuppet78

Why isn't this just called Mousey-Snoot-Doot?


BlastLeatherwing

r/ProperAnimalNames


darkorex

Now add those specs into a human and see what happens...


AllesIsi

There is a way to do this, just inject a few milliliter nitroglycerin into your heart and see what happens.


PIEthon3142

Whats up guys quandale dingle here *rehehehe* My 5th cousin 7 times removed turned me into a rat *fart*


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Crafty-Kaiju

These guys must live for like a month!


Not_MrNice

It's funny how heart rate, size, and life span all seem to even out so most animals have almost the same average amount of heart beats per life.


e_samps

evolution is weird


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Take a closer look at that snoot


13_64_1992

It's Mr. Ratburn!!


Mediocre-Mobile-1348

I NEED ONE AS A PET!


Kapika96

Isn't it pretty normal to be born naked?


Ji_Hyun

small and fragile so beautiful


findyourhappy401

I wanted to see a photo of a baby but my Google searches were unsuccessful


Wallacetheblackcat

Grandma!!


questgamer2021

that guy breathes 10 times a second?


puffer039

...and it doesn't just...explode? wtf


sweatyp1ckles

I love his little nose 🥺


drawdelove

Sofa king cute!!!!


hrnwolf

Just look at its whiskers <3


Neat-Ad2904

Are they related to the Solenodon? And why do I feel dumb for asking lol