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Stories about: infanticide

Adult Dolphins Seen Attacking Same-Species Calf Tucuxi dolphins have been thus far looked at as being rather peaceful animals that have never demonstrated until now infanticide tendencies. Behaviors of this nature are seldom observed in animals such as dolphins or whales, with only two instances of infanticide beings registered over the years in bottlenose dolphin... 18 May 2009 10:58 GMT Female Chimps Practice Heavily Infanticide and Cannibalism We know chimps can be really nasty and male aggressiveness is already recorded in our closest species, including the male infanticide. But this goes too far: not only previously thought gentle females are equally aggressive, but it's a common practice to kill and eat the babies of other females. Scientists can o... 15 May 2007 03:06 GMT