For a new
human parent, this helplessness may
translate to no sleep, no showers, no ability
to do
anything but care for the baby.
If they did interact with
humans, the hobbits may have inspired the local legends of a small, hairy, humanlike creature that some Flores natives call the Ebu Gogo (which loosely
translates to the «grandparent who eats
anything»), anthropologist Gregory Forth of the University of Alberta speculates.