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Often a lioness tries to defend her cubs against this kind of behavior from the usurping male(s), but success is more common when a group of females join to defend their offspring. [3] Within five months of a tigress giving birth, she may become receptive again if her first litter is lost, and for this reason wandering males may commit ...
This form of infanticide represents a struggle between the sexes, where one sex exploits the other, much to the latter's disadvantage. It is usually the male who benefits from this behavior, though in cases where males play similar roles to females in parental care the victim and perpetrator may be reversed (see Bateman's principle for discussion of this asymmetry).
The form of exploitation in non-human primates most attributable to adult females is when non-lactating females take an infant from its mother (allomothering) and forcibly retain it until starvation. This behavior is known as the "aunting to death" phenomenon; these non-lactating female primates gain mothering-like experience, yet lack the ...
For some species bringing new life into the world also serves as a final act. Here are 10 animal mothers that die after giving birth.
Mothers being treated for life-altering injuries can finally begin to process the loss of a child and struggle with their diminished ability to care for their surviving children. “My daughter is ...
A boa constrictor in the U.K. gave birth to 14 babies — without a mate. The process is called parthenogenesis, from the Greek words for “virgin” and “birth.”
California ground squirrel, one species known to show infanticide behaviour. Infanticide is the termination of a neonate after it has been born, and in zoology this is often the termination or consumption of newborn animals by either a parent or an unrelated adult.
?Often that word 'emergency' gets bandied about, but in this situation it really is an emergency,? said one WWF official in Australia. Report: Nearly half the ocean's animals died out in single ...