Talk:Behavior/Intelligence/@comment-24303095-20160127153624/@comment-70.31.29.4-20200107043438

This is also because looking harmless and fluffy is an excellent way to make things with guns and prejudices put said defenses down. Seriously. We're very wired as a species to look after neotenous creatures, and part of it is due to our hardwiring to raise our own young.

A parasite would be truly idiotic not to catch on that we do this, and start imitating.