Comment by emsign

You forgot to mention the most important part: Those animals are the norm, it's us humans who are the outliers! Of course we have remnants of this knowledge and models of the world that formed our ancestors DNA for Millions of yers in us. Our ancestors newborns were as independent as these other animal children.

The only difference is that our heads are too big, so we are born prematurely. The term precocial is misleading. We aren't the norm, we are the outliers, human newborn's are not a blank plate, basing your models of intelligence and learning on the assumption we are the best fit for survival in a world is bogus.