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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Quintopotere @ Aug 20 2006, 08:11 AM) [snapback]249711[/snapback]</div>

As far as I know (but I can be wrong), humans and dolphins are the only animals having pleasure with sex, while for the others is just some kind of instinct, but many other races keep care their brats.

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While most higher vertebrates provide minimal nurturing, few animals need as much love and attention as a human child. It can take a year for a child to walk. Compared to most other mammals, that is nearly forever. Human children still need lots of help; until they are nine or ten years old. True, we do live for a long time, but we spend alot of time learning to fend for ourselves. Compared to adults, human children are rather helpless, right up to adolescence, and it takes years to get that old. Most other animals are finished all of the parental duties in the span of a summer, and those duties are nowhere near as complex as raising a human child.

It is not that other animals do not look after their young at all, but that they do not have to do it for anywhere near as long.