Do baby humans and baby animals know they are cute?

Baby animals don't understand the language and baby humans don't understand it yet. Surely, though, they have some sort of "impression" of kindness, gentleness, care, love from the voices constantly cooing over them and I hope they "feel" safe and secure and adored, which is even better than cute. read more

In fact, this is the very reason that we find baby dogs and cats "cute": because they resemble our own 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. read more

Therefore humans may be more predisposed to find infants appealing, in order to deliver this care. That reinforces the idea that humans may actually find baby animals cuter, and more attractive to look at, than adult animals do, and this tendency is caused by our own biological affection for baby-like features. read more