
Crumbs, squishing babies, bee deaths
Dr Karl Podcast
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Myaoton to Day Doctors
Sophy is a bee keeper. She and doctor carl talk about the phenomenon of 'cute aggression' The term was devised in around two thousand and 15 years ago by evolutionary biologists. They think it's because you just love em so much that you just want to protect them, squish them and cuttleem. But if you are paying attention to them too much, you might not see the killer shark or corala coming over the horizon. So therefore, you temper the extreme love with a bit of aggression, and in that makes you back off.
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