What Baby Komodo Dragons, Baby Elephants, and Baby People Need

Based on her presentation at the APPPAH Congress in Los Angeles,
February, 2007, and her experience in training doctors, nurses, and first responders how to speak in medical
emergencies, Dr. Prager (2002) focuses in this article on the essential and biological nature of rapport and
bonding in the socialization of mammals, from the earliest prenatal influences on, and the deleterious effects of
their absence to all of society and the future. KEY WORDS: Prenatal care, elephant cultures, rapport, pacing,
bonding, mirror neurons, limbic resonance, entraining.