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In contrast, adelphophagy is the cannibalism of a multi-celled embryo. [1] Oophagy is thought to occur in all sharks in the order Lamniformes and has been recorded in the bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus), the pelagic thresher (A. pelagicus), the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and the porbeagle (Lamna nasus) among others. [1]
One man confessed under torture to having killed, salted, and eaten his pregnant wife; he was burned alive as punishment. [67] [68] Cannibalism was confirmed in 2013 to have occurred in at least one case: the remains of a teenage girl of about fourteen years were forensically analysed and shown to have telltale marks consistent with butchering ...
This led to a situation where, according to the historian Orlando Figes, "a considerable proportion of the meat in Soviet factories in the Volga area ... was human". [24] Cannibalism was also widespread during the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine between 1932 and 1933. While most cases were "necrophagy, the consumption of corpses ...
On Nov. 20, 1820, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., was attacked by a large sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to the Nantucket Historical Association, the boat was ...
A female shark has hatched an egg without it being fertilised by a male, a zoo in Illinois has said. Brookfield Zoo said the hatching of an epaulette shark pup was not unusual, but the way in ...
Filial cannibalism occurs when an adult individual of a species consumes all or part of the young of its own species or immediate offspring. Filial cannibalism occurs in many species ranging from mammals to insects , and is especially prevalent in various types of fish species with males that engage in egg guardianship. [ 1 ]
A man who tried to free a 4-foot tiger shark off the coast of Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina was brutally attacked — and the scene was caught on video.
Siblicide (attributed by behavioural ecologist Doug Mock to Barbara M. Braun) is the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives (full or half siblings). It may occur directly between siblings or be mediated by the parents, and is driven by the direct fitness benefits to the perpetrator and sometimes its parents.