Thanks alot exchemist, I just shot coffee through my nose...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Why? Is it because they love their Mum? "The Mother hauls around the baby until it drops off." Humans cut the cord...
There you go! Once the lungs of the new-born start working, the blood flow to the cord quickly shuts off. The cord will then eventually shrivel up and come off in time. The mother usually eats the placenta, which comes out attached to the cord, so only a manageably short length of cord will remain attached to the new-born. This does no harm, as the blood flow is shut off by that time. Humans are impatient: we often don't wait for the placenta (afterbirth) to come out, so we tie off the cord and cut it, to be able to handle the baby freely while the mother is still working on getting rid of the placenta.
That's what I figured. Didn't it occur to the OP that all placental mammals ought to have their placenta attached to something?
Yeah I chose to ignore the obvious come-on in the title. Counter is mad as a box of frogs, so I thought it better to just point him in the direction of some facts.
I think Counter took your advice and looked it up. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/animals-deal-umbilical-cord-placenta-baby-born/ Counter's quote... "The Mother hauls around the baby until it drops off." On the above link page there's talk of eating the placenta... Now look at the subheading on that page...''Feed your Brain'' Yuk,Yuk,Yuk
Counter might simply have asked himself how humans managed before the invention of scissors. Perhaps ancestral humans didn't have belly buttons? [ EDIT ] Oh. This is a Creationist rant? Ah. So the "logic" would be that humans always had scissors?