Labor Day deliveries

Usage examples of infants.

No more than a meter tall, the adults moved through the water with a stately calm, rumbling reassurance to each other, while their round-bodied infants splashed at their feet.

At three and a half, Uba had begun to emulate the adults and older children and to reject the pampering that infants and babies received.

She always enjoyed caring for the infants and children of the growing clan when their mothers were busy, and she felt a pang of remorse when they went to someone else to nurse.

She tucked her infants behind her and pushed her way to the back of the burrow, away from its entrance.

There were mothers with infants clinging to their backs and bellies, supported by clusters of aunts.

Most of the troop, males, females, and infants, had clustered together in a single tree, a low, broad mango.

The smallest infants stayed with their mothers, though older youngsters rolled and wrestled.

Males whooped, females flinched, infants cried, and Capo allowed himself a glimmer of pride in his work.

The male, and a small clan of females and infants, did nothing but sit around and feed on leaves and the wild celery that carpeted the forest floor.

Intimidated by these ferocious others, realizing how hopeless their situation was, Leaf and the others gathered up their infants and prepared to follow.

The talking was among the mothers and infants, the groomers, and the couples.

They were all females, with heavy breasts over those giant bellies, and as they stared at Fur, they pulled their tubby infants toward them.

Mothers caressed infants, men and women alike played wordless politics as they cemented alliances and reinforced hierarchies.

Unlike the apes and even the pithecines, walker infants could not forage for themselves until long after weaning: aside from their physical immaturity, the ability to exploit food sources like hunted meat, clams, and heavy-shelled nuts was not innate in the newborn, and so had to be learned.

Many infants, in the arms of starving refugee mothers, failed to live much past birth.