Do animals recognize other species' babies?

Likewise, when a dog or a cat or a monkey or any other relatively intelligent animal sees a human baby, their brain is stimulated by characteristics that are similar to the ones that would inform it that it was looking at a baby of its own species. So yes, most animals can recognize whether individuals of other species are infants or not. read more

It appears that animals do not recognize “babies” from their size since my dogs could tell an adult Chihuahua from a puppy of the same size. All mammal babies have diminutive features, that humans usually classify as “cute”. read more