The harlows took baby monkeys away from their mothers to live alone, frightened them, and observed that the babies clung to terrycloth fake mothers rather than wire fake mothers. the experiment intended to prove what might already have been obvious—that infants need to be

The infants are in need to be cuddled. It is because based on the experiment, they are likely to clung to terrycloth fake mothers than those in the wire fake mothers as the wire fake mothers isn't easy to be cuddled on or clung on in which the terrycloth is accessible to be clung to that proves that infants are needed to be cuddled.