Babies make jokes while still too young to talk
Babies too young to speak know how to make jokes and form friendships, say researchers.
Academics at Charles Sturt University in Australia found, in a two-year study, that children aged six months to 18 months use sophisticated but subtle non-verbal means to make friends and make each other laugh.
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