It creates an enormous amount of exchange between parents and their children, and that's exactly what we want. Parents facilitate their kids' learning, and in the process they also learn themselves. They're readily available, abundant, and easy to handle and keep. They also display almost every trait exhibited by other members of the animal kingdom, including predator-prey relationships, social behaviors, parasitism, and mutual interdependencies. And kids really like their amazing variety of unusual attributes.
Insects also are the only creatures known to undergo the process of metamorphosis.
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