> Honestly I would be very surprised if infant humans > passed this, let alone unborn babies. This is where I make the completely bonkers claim that drowni

> Honestly I would be very surprised if infant humans > passed this, let alone unborn babies. This is where I make the completely bonkers claim that drowning infants is just plain worse across the board than drowning chimps. If there were 5 babies and 5 chimps drowning in the pool, I'd have no hesitation to save the 5 babies first, and I would expect prosecution for negligence if I didn't and the babies died. I don't think this is merely a desire to save "my own" species for some weird sake of solidarity. I think it's a reasonable discernment of the relative value of the lives at stake. > From what I have seen of babies, they just aren't that smart. Well, they certainly don't have a lot of experiential knowledge, but they're incredibly fast learners (I have 5). Though I'm not disagreeing that, especially during their nascent stages, they can't do nearly as many neat tricks as the adult chimp. ;-)