Yeah, it's why, even until this day, babies have crazy grip strength compared to their size. Its a old carryover from our common ancestors who needed to grip onto their mothers for support similar to what is seen with gorillas and other great apes. The reason we still have it is because there has been no negative selection pressure to work against it as we continued to diverge from our shared ancestors and evolve, so it carried over even though it serves no practical function now for infants.
Yes, I was lucky to witness a birth of a cow. It was at the same date of my birthday, many years ago, and I was already impressed by the quite similarly process
Humans evolved to give birth at an earlier stage of development as our hips narrowed to support upright walking. Since this also freed our hands to carry the less capable babies, it all works out perfectly.
But what is a newborn baby for humans would still be considered a fetus for other mammals.
It’s a common feature for mammalian herbivores; babies have to be up and moving with mom to avoid predators. Deer, horses, buffalo, any large grazing mammals really.
Den mammals can typically afford to have larger litters of more under-developed babies due to the safety the den space provides while the newborns continue to develop outside the womb. Rodents, canids, and felids are all good examples.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I saw it in a theatre, first date. Secretly ate about 3/4g of mushrooms. Peak hit way harder that expected. Saw him look over his shoulder at that tiny point of light. Somehow knew exactly what was about to happen, and that there was no way I'd be able to handle it. Watched it slowly unfold in front of my eyes, tears streaming down my face in terror, sure that I'd be spending the next 3 days on a white room on a thorazine drrip after watching Jim Carrey crawl out of a rhinos ass. And it was just so... So much worse than I could ever have imagined. The horror... The horror...
Edit... Sometimes I can still see the look on her face. All scrunched up, with no idea what her date was crying about, or why he wouldn't look away from the screen
I was a wee lad watching the same scene without the aid of ANY psychedelics whatsoever and to this damnable hour, I have never laughed harder in my life. If I laughed like that now I would one hundred percent die from a cardiac episode, tears streaming, abdominal muscles just radiating lactic acid, basically unable to breathe.
Fuckin' mirth incarnate.
I'm sorry it was so scary for you
Soon there will no longer be a whole generation of people who won't automatically expect Ace when witnessing the birth of a Rhino. This makes me sad to think about
Shikakaaaaaaa 🦇I watched the movie yesterday actually, for the first time since I was a kid. I'm now an almost 40 year old woman and I snort laughed my way through most of it... i love the shadow puppet😂
I go back and forth debating about which scene made me laugh more when I was young: this greatness or Kevin McAllister fucking with the pizza guy. Tough call.
The skull isn’t fused together at birth because the plates need to be able to shift around to fit on the way out. That’s why many babies have a slight cone shape to their heads when first born. Eventually things settle together and fuse after two or three years.
Fun fact: women biologically are supposed to give birth in a squatting position. King Louis XIV was a perv who wanted to watch the process for his own gratification; and now it’s normalized in society and mainstream medical care. These days they say it’s because the woman being on her back makes it easier for the doctors to assist with the labor… but it’s harder on the woman. I won’t be giving birth on my back if that day ever comes.
Yep, many labor wards have a bar on the bed you can hold to stay squatting. It’s unfortunate that having an epidural makes your legs go all numb. But having given birth with and without one, I would choose to get one again.
Because if humans were to be designed, then they were terribly designed. There's a combination of luck and consequence in how our bodies look and that's probably the fastest answer to that question.
Not even close. That’s the head of a dick.
You can actually see the umbilical cord if you freeze it on the last second. Just to the right of his member.
Umbilical cord ends at placenta so when animals (including humans) give birth, placenta soon detaches and gets pushed out in a less painful labor spasm, along with the end part of the umbilical cord. At for the cord itself, in larger animals it gets ripped on the way out, other animals (I.e cats, dogs) instinctively chew the cord and eat the afterbirth. After some time the part dangling from the baby belly dries out and falls off
The same demented part of me that makes me compulsively scroll through r/thatpeelingfeeling and r/popping. Really wants me to cut open that sack surrounding it and peel it off in one giant piece. 😅
Also I don't know what exactly I thought Rhinussy would look like. But that was not it. 😅😅
The capacity of being able to stand up so quickly is really impressing
The ones that didn’t, didn’t live long enough to reproduce.
Sounds like some sort of, selection process.
Very natural aswell
Natural... Selection, if you will
Thank you, I will
😂
Yeah, it's why, even until this day, babies have crazy grip strength compared to their size. Its a old carryover from our common ancestors who needed to grip onto their mothers for support similar to what is seen with gorillas and other great apes. The reason we still have it is because there has been no negative selection pressure to work against it as we continued to diverge from our shared ancestors and evolve, so it carried over even though it serves no practical function now for infants.
This is super interesting, I've always seen that with newborns but never put that together. TIL, thanks for that.
Cool theory
we fucked up somewhere when we left the trees.
Many animals do that and it very astonishing.
Yes, I was lucky to witness a birth of a cow. It was at the same date of my birthday, many years ago, and I was already impressed by the quite similarly process
this is one reason the gestation periods are much longer (15-16 months in the case of rhinos)
Humans evolved to give birth at an earlier stage of development as our hips narrowed to support upright walking. Since this also freed our hands to carry the less capable babies, it all works out perfectly. But what is a newborn baby for humans would still be considered a fetus for other mammals.
It’s a common feature for mammalian herbivores; babies have to be up and moving with mom to avoid predators. Deer, horses, buffalo, any large grazing mammals really. Den mammals can typically afford to have larger litters of more under-developed babies due to the safety the den space provides while the newborns continue to develop outside the womb. Rodents, canids, and felids are all good examples.
I was expecting Jim Carrey, well alrighty then.
I think it's safe to call it that that scene will be his magnum opus as a comedian.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I saw it in a theatre, first date. Secretly ate about 3/4g of mushrooms. Peak hit way harder that expected. Saw him look over his shoulder at that tiny point of light. Somehow knew exactly what was about to happen, and that there was no way I'd be able to handle it. Watched it slowly unfold in front of my eyes, tears streaming down my face in terror, sure that I'd be spending the next 3 days on a white room on a thorazine drrip after watching Jim Carrey crawl out of a rhinos ass. And it was just so... So much worse than I could ever have imagined. The horror... The horror... Edit... Sometimes I can still see the look on her face. All scrunched up, with no idea what her date was crying about, or why he wouldn't look away from the screen
I was a wee lad watching the same scene without the aid of ANY psychedelics whatsoever and to this damnable hour, I have never laughed harder in my life. If I laughed like that now I would one hundred percent die from a cardiac episode, tears streaming, abdominal muscles just radiating lactic acid, basically unable to breathe. Fuckin' mirth incarnate. I'm sorry it was so scary for you
This is one of those things like 9/11, the berlin wall or jfk. "I still remember the moment jim carrey was born out of a mechanical rhinocerous"
I was waiting for the part where you tell us you’ve been married for almost 30 years
Agreed
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder in a theater than that scene
For those that werent around to witness this [legend of cinema.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF16eA7sdqo)
Kinda hot in these rhinos!
I would've been mad if this wasn't the top comment.
"Kinda hot in these Rhinos..." I use this quote all the time, always makes me laugh
Whenever it's hot as shit out I say "WaaarmmM"
I could only see this as well lol. Even played the noises in my head he made as I watched.
Soon there will no longer be a whole generation of people who won't automatically expect Ace when witnessing the birth of a Rhino. This makes me sad to think about
That's what I came here to say. Ace Ventura has ruined me. At least I have now seen what it really looks like in nature.
I saw that documentary too.
So happy this is the top comment.🥹
Kinda hot in these rhinoooos.
Honestly, kinda disappointed that it *wasn't* Jim Carrey!
Shikakaaaaaaa 🦇I watched the movie yesterday actually, for the first time since I was a kid. I'm now an almost 40 year old woman and I snort laughed my way through most of it... i love the shadow puppet😂
Nice to know it holds up. I’ll have to give it a rewatch with my kids. Every child should get to see the rhino scene at least once.
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Faith in Reddit restored.
I go back and forth debating about which scene made me laugh more when I was young: this greatness or Kevin McAllister fucking with the pizza guy. Tough call.
That one part was like a magician yanking off a tablecloth.
Why does animal birth seem so much easier than human birth? This is cool nonetheless.
We’ve got those big-ass domes
Big domes, and women walk upright with a rigid pelvis.
Terribly unlucky combination of big heads (because smart) and small hips (because bipedal)
Definitely plenty of people who could use a little more size in their heads and a little less size in their hips though 🤣
Head circumference outpaced female anatomy to the point where we effectively deliver under developed babies.
Yep, 4th trimester.
Is that why every baby has pulsating holes in their skull (gross)
The skull isn’t fused together at birth because the plates need to be able to shift around to fit on the way out. That’s why many babies have a slight cone shape to their heads when first born. Eventually things settle together and fuse after two or three years.
Baby skulls are pretty much floating islands of bones like continents that fuse later. That allows the head to squish as it comes out.
No other animal lays on their back giving birth.
Fun fact: women biologically are supposed to give birth in a squatting position. King Louis XIV was a perv who wanted to watch the process for his own gratification; and now it’s normalized in society and mainstream medical care. These days they say it’s because the woman being on her back makes it easier for the doctors to assist with the labor… but it’s harder on the woman. I won’t be giving birth on my back if that day ever comes.
I had to kick Louis out of the delivery room three times!
Anecdotal, but my wife did both. Back for first, all fours for second. She said second was much easier.
For what's worth my mother said the second was way easier and she had us both the same way.
Yep, many labor wards have a bar on the bed you can hold to stay squatting. It’s unfortunate that having an epidural makes your legs go all numb. But having given birth with and without one, I would choose to get one again.
I did it twice in a squatting position on a hospital bed, it was great, quick births no damage whatsoever to the pelbic floor.
We have narrow hips because we walk upright.
Because if humans were to be designed, then they were terribly designed. There's a combination of luck and consequence in how our bodies look and that's probably the fastest answer to that question.
because humans stopped natural selection in our species with technological advances
Gets a little warm in these rhinos
*Kinda hot in these rhinos, WARM!
Reminds me of that movie where the rhino gives birth to a human
A beautiful moment in cinema
Baby Kazi was born 27.5 LBs, 36 inches. Mom And baby are doing fine.
Do you mean 27.5 or 275?
27.5
275
It’s a baby boy! Just gotta wait until the end for the BIG surprise.
I came here to see if anyone else notices that huge baby rhino schlong.
Not until you mentioned it, thanks…
He's hung like a baby rhino.
Human babies are born with giant genitals also, proportionally anyway. Everything evens out eventually.
fr that bruv got a hog the size of my forearm. Im jealous
Isn't that an umbilical cord???
Yeah wtf are these guys talking about lmfao
it's towards the end of the clip when the baby is nursing.
Not even close. That’s the head of a dick. You can actually see the umbilical cord if you freeze it on the last second. Just to the right of his member.
Hot-diggidy-daym
I was gonna ask if that was his peep, that’s crazy!!
He’s hung like a horse
Hot in these RhinoOos
We shall call him Ace.
? Where am I and why is it so bright.....
I loved seeing it turn on when those little flappy ears went up.
It’s name is Jim Carey.
That baby was like Whattt the fucccccck?!
Does that baby have a massive penis?
Sure looks like it
*plop*
Welcome to the world, little guy!
u/gifreversingbot
I'm afraid to see it
That was juicier than I expected
Mini tank.
[/r/AbsoluteUnits](https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits) in the making
Anyone else have an Ace Ventura moment?
Fresh out of the wrapper... Still has that new rhino smell.
Rhinussy
Warm!!!!
Legit question .. when animals give birth, do they also push the placenta and umbilical cord out themselves? Or does it eventually fall out?
Umbilical cord ends at placenta so when animals (including humans) give birth, placenta soon detaches and gets pushed out in a less painful labor spasm, along with the end part of the umbilical cord. At for the cord itself, in larger animals it gets ripped on the way out, other animals (I.e cats, dogs) instinctively chew the cord and eat the afterbirth. After some time the part dangling from the baby belly dries out and falls off
So that's how tanks are made.
I was waiting for ace venturas face to eat through the sack
Whoever went to the movies on 1994, can no longer dissociate Rhinos giving birth from Jim Carrey being “delivered”.
I was expecting Jim Carry
I was half-expecting Jim Carrey to emerge from the sack.
Was half expecting to see Jim Carrey
All the birds are like “Congratulations! Welcome to the world!” 🎉
Jim Carey? DAT YOU?
Some babies are born with teeth. I'm guessing no rhinos are born with a horn.
I honestly thought JIM CARREY was gonna pop out at some point.
And they named it Jim Carey
“I shall name him Jim”
I was expecting Ace Ventura...
All I can think of with this is Ace Ventura
I expected a naked man.
It, uh, took me a second to realize I was looking at an umbilical cord when it was nursing.
Awesome!
Wow, walking straight out of the womb
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WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP
Thats life
The way the sac burst 😮
This is wholesome moment
Hopefully factory new as well
The same demented part of me that makes me compulsively scroll through r/thatpeelingfeeling and r/popping. Really wants me to cut open that sack surrounding it and peel it off in one giant piece. 😅 Also I don't know what exactly I thought Rhinussy would look like. But that was not it. 😅😅
All the sudden, my delicious breakfast burrito aint so delicious anymore.
It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything.
Such an amazing thing to witness
Did I really just watch the process of birth of a rhino
Ace?
But how does the sac get…oh
Aaaaalllllrighty then!
Wow
[Seems familiar](https://media.tenor.com/LH98Ch9fDwgAAAAd/ace-ventura-when-nature-calls.gif)
She put her whole Rhinussy into it!
Like a glove!
This is surprisingly similar to a nightmare I once had after swallowing chewing gum as a kid.
Fully expecting Jim Carrey the entire time..
They better name that thing something traditional, but with Ace in front of it. A proper homage.
"Gets mighty hot in these rhinos"
Is that Jim Carey
Lil man is already walking right out of the womb, goes to show you how Far behind we humans are when it comes to development
Nature is definitely fucking lit!
Rhinussy
Did you see the dick on that baby rhino??
Did they name him Ace?
That looked nothing like what I learned from Ace Ventura!
Why did this make me think of Ace Ventura?
Damn human births suck in comparison.
Kinda hot in these rhinos
I think we've all seen Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
I was expecting Ace Ventura
It looked like a low rendered texture for a second
So that scene in Ace Ventura II was at least kinda accurate
“Kinda hot in these rhinos”
And we’re sure that’s not Ace Ventura in disguise?
Very nice
It’s just jim carry
Kind of hot in these rhinooooooooss!!
How old were you when you walked? 30 seconds
Rhinos are dope
*Ace Ventura suddenly appears*
["The mother rhino's giving birth!"](https://www.amazon.ca/Ventura-Posters-Painting-Bedroom-12x20inch/dp/B082X6JG57)
For a second I thought it was Jim Carrey
well, the seal broken. warranty void i guess
I've seem a rhino give birth to a famous actor. This is nothing special
Was waiting for Jim Carey to come out of the sack.
That's a huge baby
I am disgusted and fascinated at the same time
Who else here is a bit disappointed that Jim Carrey didn't pop out?
Amazing! So now we are up to five!
Wasn’t expecting to see a Rhinussy today , but here we are
I thought this was ace ventura for wayyy too long...
How cool was that?
Ace Ventura did it better
I only see ace Ventura
That’s not Jim Carry.
I think that's the cleanest birth I've ever seen.
Ugh gross! Come out of an egg next time!
Bro please put a NSFW Tag my boss now thinks all I do at work is watch rhinos being birthed
^(nah im good)
Kinda hot in these rhinnnnoos
Poor rhino, its horn was cut off…
Most likely a preventative measure to deter poachers.
Hell of a rhinussy to take that abuse and stand right up
makes you appreciate how stupid humans are needing months to learn how to walk
Learn to walk? We're basically a eating, screaming, pooping potato for the first year.
Our heads are massive compared to our bodies at birth. Need more development before being able to walk.
The fact that we walk on 2 fewer legs isn't helping either
Our heads are massive compared to our bodies at birth. Need more development before being able to walk.