La vicuña del Perú, la lana más fina del mundo: Vicuñas baby and others - Lama glama, guanaco and alpaca. Images of small creatures that produce well-being.

Vicuñas baby and others - Lama glama, guanaco and alpaca. Images of small creatures that produce well-being.

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will be asleep. Anatole France

The images of small animals, with clear shades and green spaces inspire inner tranquility, create a sense of familiarity that reassures us. Animals are important in our life; we like the images spread with profusion in social networks because our brain, seeing an animal showing its tender face, has a greater positive disposition for cognitive processes and a good relationship with people; It also lowers levels of stress and anxiety.

People make "active pauses" and search Instagram animals with images modified to cause more tenderness; The gestures of the animals are transformed and exaggerated so that they resemble the face of a baby. We are far from nature, so the images of animals placed in natural environments or landscapes relax us and cause us a sense of familiarity that reassures us; And it is better if these images are combined with low sound frequencies that resemble the heartbeat, the person relaxes even more.

Vicuña baby- (Vicugna vicugna)

The tenderness in the photos and videos of animals are stimuli that have psychological effects because they show behaviors that we consider tender. The tenderness attributed to animals rescues different evolutionary faculties of our species, such as the tendency to protect the little ones, and to comfort those who present some discomfort, among others.

There is an evolutionary explanation that explains why younger humans tender us: we must take care of them or our species will become extinct. Why do we feel such strong emotions for most baby mammals?

Alpaca (Vicugna pacos)

Austrian Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), who studied the evolutionary and adaptive importance of human behaviors (human ethology), pointed out that many animals have certain traits also shared by human babies, but not by adults: big eyes , flat noses, bulky forehead and small chin. Lorenz believed that we transferred our reaction to the same set of traits in other animals.

According to Lorenz, we judge the appearance of other animals, even if they are not mammals, with the same criteria with which we judge ours. "It is our response that interprets it. If babies began to be born with long noses and narrow heads, even with horns, we would begin to see those features as beautiful. For this reason, parents tend to believe that their own offspring are more attractive than other babies.There is an inherent instinct to preserve our own lineage.With a more concentrated focus, it means our own specific DNA.

Lama (Lama glama)

Although we are not going to confuse a human baby with a baby seal, we do have the impulse to take care of this little hairy creature with its huge black and imploring eyes. A baby elephant with its thick gray skin, its small bright eyes, its large ears and its long tubes should not seem attractive, but it is, by identification with human babies.

Little elephants do not physically resemble humans, but they have similar behavioral elements: they are playful, fragile (compared to their relatives), innocent, and although they remain with their moms by survival instinct, we interpret it as love. When we see childish behaviors, we interpret them incorrectly, and transfer our affection. The same sensations occur when we see the adorable creatures of Peruvian camelids.

Guanaco (Lama guanicoe)