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brassneck
21 Feb 18 23:29
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any of you guys know of any female animal that kills it babies.i heard of fish doing it,and some birds do it,and a lot of male parents do it.
but has any of you heard or know of a mother animal killing  its baby.?
not the best subject i know,but i am finding it difficult to find an answer on google.
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Report Sica Dan February 21, 2018 11:35 PM GMT
Some mice  will eat their  own young if food is in short supply,this enables the mother to survive
and have more young in the future.
Report brassneck February 21, 2018 11:39 PM GMT
thanks Sica Dan,i was trying to find out if it is a natural event in the animal world, and this is a great help to me ,thanks again Dan.
Report tictacman1 February 21, 2018 11:46 PM GMT
Hamsters do....

If a mother guinea pig has a back to back pregnancy, (two litters of babies extremely close together), she may be more likely to eat her babies, due to nutrient deficiencies.
Report brassneck February 21, 2018 11:53 PM GMT
another question?if a dog has a load of pups and one dies,is it because the one that dies is not strong enough to fight for food,or have any you ever heard of the mother pushing the weak pup away.?
Report DenzilPenberthy February 22, 2018 12:05 AM GMT
Spiders eat their little uns as well as the males also frogs and newts well mine do anyway
Report DenzilPenberthy February 22, 2018 12:06 AM GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1NBpVKWh_c
Report akabula February 22, 2018 12:11 AM GMT
When food is scarce some animals will sacrifice the weakest of their offspring by only feeding the stronger ones.
Report akabula February 22, 2018 12:12 AM GMT
Theres a clip online of a bird killing the weakest chick in the nest.
Report brassneck February 22, 2018 12:23 AM GMT
believe it or not aka,during the great famine in Ireland when food was near gone  the family would give the food to the strongest in the family in the hope that strongest might be able to get some food for all the following day.
Report DenzilPenberthy February 22, 2018 12:27 AM GMT
I'd never thought of that level of survival instinct in humans Scared
Report lybertyne February 22, 2018 10:54 AM GMT
Some female humans kill their offspring.
Report STUDYFORM February 22, 2018 1:03 PM GMT
Great nature, isn't it?
(that was an ironic, rhetorical question).
Report annie. February 22, 2018 2:10 PM GMT
I used to love keeping hamsters until one day I saw my female hamster licking one of her babies clean - I thought. No, she bit its head off Cry

I had always been upset by the hamsters biting at the bars of the cage, so after seeing that I let them have the run of a spare room.  You can imagine what happened, no killing of babies but loads of hamsters!
Report DenzilPenberthy February 22, 2018 2:35 PM GMT
Shocked
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