The closest i can find is that it s actually a retelling of an indian story of akbar and birbal where instead of a heated floor it s rising water in a well pond where the mother monkey standing on child so that it can live.
Monkey and baby experiment hot floor.
Harlow s monkey experiment reinforced the importance of mother and child bonding.
But eventually every mother chimp does the same thing.
Story found here if link doesn t work it s story 60 i believe.
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The pit of despair was a name used by american comparative psychologist harry harlow for a device he designed technically called a vertical chamber apparatus that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the university of wisconsin madison in the 1970s.
She puts her baby on the hot floor and stands on it.
Who did the experiment testing a monkey when her cage floor was heated until she stood on her baby.
Birbal did the said experiment during the rein of akbar.
When a dial was turned the floor of the cage became hotter and hotter.
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Then the baby jumps into its mother s arms.
At first the mother and baby leap from foot to foot.
Half way through the novel yvonne s barrister tells a story about an experiment in which a female chimpanzee and her newborn baby were placed in a specially prepared cage.
Who did the experiment testing a monkey when her cage floor was heated until she stood on her baby.
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I read that in a newspaper before i had children says doughty and it stuck.
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In this case the baby monkeys reacted rather differently with the same stimulus throwing themselves on the floor rocking back and forth and evidently did not go to the wire mesh mother for comfort.