Why do we have friends?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Friends rule! The best ones are those that are always there to help you out, embark on a strange adventure, make you laugh so hard you cry and appreciate all the weird and wonderful things that make you… you! We love our friends! But do we humans need them as a species? We talked to psychologist/biologist Lauren Brent to find the answer.

Do you and your BFF have a question? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll be a friend and help find the answer!

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:08.0	Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios.
0:10.9	I'm Petey the Platypus.
0:13.2	Um.
0:14.9	We platypuses are solitary creatures.
0:17.8	We spend most of our time swimming around looking for food.
0:20.9	Alone. Resting in our burrows around looking for food. Alone.
0:21.8	Resting in our burrows or on sunny rocks.
0:24.5	Alone.
0:25.3	Or exploring land, alone.
0:27.5	We don't have many plattie pals.
0:29.6	If you know what I mean.
0:30.9	Sure.
0:31.4	Some might say we're weird.
0:33.3	Or antisocial.
0:35.2	Or mutant animals made up of the body parts of other animals.
0:39.1	But just because we're loners who have duck-like bills and beaver-like tails
0:42.7	doesn't mean we're not living a good life.
0:45.9	I mean, what do you humans need friends for anyway?
0:49.8	No, really, I could have sworn one of you's had the exact same question.
0:53.7	Vincent, can you help me out here?
0:56.4	My name is Vincent, and I'm from Denver, Colorado.
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