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The maternal-offspring conflict has also been studied in animals species and humans. One such case has been documented in the mid-1970s by ethologist Wulf Schiefenhövel. Eipo women of West New Guinea engage in a cultural practice in which they give birth just outside of the village. Following the birth of their child, each woman weighed whether or not she should keep the child or leave the child in the brush nearby, leaving it to die . Likelihood of survival and availability of resources within the village were factors that played into the decision of keeping the child. During one illustrated birth, the mother felt the child was too ill and would not survive, so she wrapped the child up, preparing to leave the child in the brush; however, after seeing the child moving, the mother unwrapped the child and brought it into the village, demonstrating the shift from a state of not able to be a villager to a state of being welcomed into the community . This conflict between the mother and the child resulted in detachment behaviors in Brazil, seen in Scheper-Hughes work as "many Alto abies remain[ed] not only unchristened but unnamed until they begin to walk or talk", or if a medical crisis arose and the baby needed an emergency baptism. This conflict between survival, both emotional and physical, prompted a shift in cultural practices, thus resulting in new forms of investment from the mother towards the child.