Why Do Animals Sometimes Kill Their Babies?

Friday, March 28, 2014 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Infanticide by males in the wild is a winning strategy in life's biggest sweepstakes: reproductive success. But what prompts a mother in a zoo to eat her babies?

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