Developing the Ability to Walk on Your Hands

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We're always looking at animals that go through a typical developmental process. But for me, I'm fascinated also by when animals are born with atypical bodies and yet they figure it out. It's not instinctive to walk on your legs or on your arms. You learn to use the body that you have. That is so, so even it's hard to imagine anything more instinctive.

How do animals know how to do things like spin a web or build a dam? A neuroscientist argues it's not “instinct.” Something bigger is going on.

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