More of my headcanon for Cardassian child development
Young Cardassians are natural climbers. This was extremely helpful in the early years to avoid ground dwelling predators. Their mottled pattern (that fades before adulthood) breaks up their shape against the tree.
This also means infants will just naturally cling to their parent’s (or other adult’s) back. Adults will curl their tail up to keep the infant from just falling (if you’ve been around babies, you know), and to protect them.
However!
This means modern urban toddlers have a whole lot of climbing urges and nothing but those nice curtains to scale. Toddlers would probably have cat trees instead of playpens
A moment of silence for Dukat’s wife who had to raise all his little tree gremlins…
