Human And Animal Beginnings 1966

this leader is provided to permit the projectionist to adjust the projector before the film Begins the volume and tone are identical with the soundtrack which [Music] follows [Music] a here is a room full of newborn babies in a hospital Nursery each baby has its own little bed watched over by a nurse and right now each baby spends most of the day and night sleeping a baby usually cries when hungry babies can't find food by themselves so the nurse takes the baby to the mother then the baby by sucking gets milk from the mother's breast until mother and child go home the nurse takes care of them let's see what a baby only a few hours old can do he can't stand or sit up by himself or even roll over the baby will grasp a finger the pull against his fingers causes them to close together so tightly that he can be lifted up a little the baby will grasp a ring placed in his hand but he doesn't look at it because he doesn't know how to turn his head towards the ring nor is he able to bring it to his mouth to chew on it so you see a newborn baby is pretty helpless he couldn't live if someone didn't care for [Music] him these small fingers belong to another kind of baby a baby monkey like a human baby he will grasp a thumb and can be held up this baby is being cared for in a special Nursery of a zoo because he has a cold the nurse bundles him up like a human baby to keep him warm the baby monkey can find his thumb do you know anyone else who sucks his thumb without his mother he needs to be fed and looked after can you guess what kind of babies these are they were born just a few minutes ago this is a mother Mouse moving her babies to a new Nest these babies have no hair their eyes are still closed and they can barely move by themselves see how different they are from baby rabbits newborn rabbits can move around by themselves they are born with a full coat of fur but like baby mice their eyes eyes have not yet opened newborn guinea pigs are even more mature than the rabbits Their Eyes Are Open they eat lettuce by themselves as well as nurse from their mother what other kinds of babies have you seen perhaps you've seen ducklings only a few hours old baby duck Lings can run about and eat and drink by themselves they can even swim other newborn babies can swim even better than a duck each of these baby fish just a day old is about as big as a grain of sand on the bottom of the stream let's find out how Life Begins for all kinds of babies each baby starts life from a single egg which was fertilized by the father you can see that the duck egg and the fish egg are larger than the rabbit egg or the human egg your hand is about the size of a duck egg an egg from which a human baby grows is no bigger than the point of a sharp pencil eggs grow in the mother's body in the human mother usually one at a time in the rabbit mother half a dozen at a time in the mother duck usually one each day for several days the mother fish produces hundreds and thousands of eggs at the same time She lays these at the bottom of a stream inside each egg you can see a tiny fish wriggling around almost ready to be born usually a mother fish leaves her eggs to hatch by themselves one by one each fish breaks out of the egg in a little while they can swim and look for food a mother duck lays her eggs in a nest on the ground in 10 or 12 days She lays 10 or 12 eggs she sits on her egg to keep them warm the warmth from her body starts growth inside each egg if we could look inside the egg we could see the little duckling beginning to form it gets its food for growth from the yolk in the egg in a month the duckling is ready to hatch to get out it wriggles and wiggles inside and breaks the eggshell with the tip of its bill here we see the actual hatching of a little duckling as it breaks out of its shell it takes several hours for the duckling to make a door there at first the duckling can hardly walk and its feathers are wet in about 20 minutes the feathers become fluffy and the duckling is ready to take his first steps and go in search of food most animals stay with their babies only a very short time the baby rabbits leave the nest in only a few weeks these little fish never did see their mother after they hatched remember like these babies the human baby also develops from an egg after it has been fertilized by the Father the egg grows inside the mother and will be become a baby 1 month 4 months 6 months it takes about 9 months for the human baby to be born the mother usually goes to a hospital to have her baby the mother's muscles push the baby out the doctor helps bring the baby into the world [Music] in about a week father brings baby and Mother home from the hospital and the family is together again the whole family joins in taking care of the baby human beings stay with their children a long time many many years mothers fathers brothers sisters grandmothers and grandfathers Aunts Uncles and cousins all play a part in the baby's life as he grows up what started out as a helpless newborn baby unable to raise its head or turn over grows into a child that runs jumps plays and goes to school and in school he watches thinks questions and learns how life begins is M ever a baby yes just as you were once did you ever cry of course but when I was a baby my mother pinned this Jade ring here why my mother thought this Stone pinned over my heart would help me to sleep quietly my mother sings me to [Music] sleep my father always tells me to go to sleep are any of you expecting a new baby brother or sister at home I am going to have a baby brother I'm going to get some kittens I have 38 Guppies I sleep in my doll boys and girls there are other children watching this film shall we we let them talk with their teacher about babies and how they grow