Infanticide (zoology), the Glossary

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1. 145 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Acorn woodpecker, Allele, Altruism, American foulbrood, Amphibian, Animal, Backcrossing, Bass (fish), Bateman's principle, Bee sting, Belostomatidae, Biological specificity, Bird, Black rock skink, Black-tailed prairie dog, Bottlenose dolphin, Brood reduction, Brown rat, Bruce effect, Burying beetle, Child abuse, Child cannibalism, Chronobiology, Circadian rhythm, Colobinae, Cornell University, Cost–benefit analysis, Crime, Desiccation, Discover (magazine), Dominance (genetics), Dominance hierarchy, Egg, Egg incubation, Egg tossing (behavior), Energy, Estrous cycle, Ethology, European rabbit, Eusociality, Evaporation, Evolution (TV series), Evolutionary arms race, Evolutionary pressure, Experiment, Fauna of the United States, Felidae, Female, Fertilisation, ... Expand index (95 more) »

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Acorn woodpecker

The acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) is a medium-sized woodpecker with a length of around, and an average weight of.

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Allele

An allele, or allelomorph, is a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule.

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Altruism

Altruism is the principle and practice of concern for the well-being and/or happiness of other humans or animals above oneself.

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American foulbrood

American foulbrood (AFB, Histolysis infectiosa perniciosa larvae apium, Pestis americana larvae apium), caused by the spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, is a highly infectious honey bee brood disease.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Backcrossing

Backcrossing is a crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent, to achieve offspring with a genetic identity closer to that of the parent.

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Bass (fish)

Bass (bass) is a generic common name shared by many species of ray-finned fish from the large clade Percomorpha, mainly belonging to the orders Perciformes and Moroniformes, encompassing both freshwater and marine species.

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Bateman's principle

Bateman's principle, in evolutionary biology, is that in most species, variability in reproductive success (or reproductive variance) is greater in males than in females.

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Bee sting

A bee sting is the wound and pain caused by the stinger of a female bee puncturing skin.

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Belostomatidae

Belostomatidae is a family of freshwater hemipteran insects known as giant water bugs or colloquially as toe-biters, Indian toe-biters, electric-light bugs, alligator ticks, or alligator fleas (in Florida).

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Biological specificity

Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Black rock skink

The black rock skink (Egernia saxatilis) is a species of large skink native to Eastern and Southern Australia from central New South Wales to Grampians National Park in Victoria.

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Black-tailed prairie dog

The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is a rodent of the family Sciuridae (the squirrels) found in the Great Plains of North America from about the United States–Canada border to the United States–Mexico border.

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Bottlenose dolphin

The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale in the genus Tursiops. They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins.

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Brood reduction

Brood reduction occurs when the number of nestlings in a birds brood is reduced, usually because there is a limited amount of resources available.

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Brown rat

The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread species of common rat.

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Bruce effect

The Bruce effect, or pregnancy block, is the tendency for female rodents to terminate their pregnancies following exposure to the scent of an unfamiliar male. Infanticide (zoology) and Bruce effect are ethology.

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Burying beetle

Burying beetles or sexton beetles, genus Nicrophorus, are the best-known members of the family Silphidae (carrion beetles).

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Child abuse

Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child, especially by a parent or a caregiver.

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Child cannibalism

Child cannibalism or fetal cannibalism is the act of eating a child or fetus.

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Chronobiology

Chronobiology is a field of biology that examines timing processes, including periodic (cyclic) phenomena in living organisms, such as their adaptation to solar- and lunar-related rhythms.

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Circadian rhythm

A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.

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Colobinae

The Colobinae or leaf-eating monkeys are a subfamily of the Old World monkey family that includes 61 species in 11 genera, including the black-and-white colobus, the large-nosed proboscis monkey, and the gray langurs.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Cost–benefit analysis

Cost–benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit–cost analysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Desiccation

Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.

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Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American general audience science magazine launched in October 1980 by Time Inc.

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Dominance (genetics)

In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.

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Dominance hierarchy

In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system. Infanticide (zoology) and dominance hierarchy are ethology.

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Egg

An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Egg incubation

Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Infanticide (zoology) and egg incubation are ethology.

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Egg tossing (behavior)

Egg tossing or egg destruction is a behavior observed in some species of birds where one individual removes an egg from the communal nest.

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Energy

Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.

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Estrous cycle

The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.

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Ethology

Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals. Infanticide (zoology) and Ethology are zoology.

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European rabbit

The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) or coney is a species of rabbit native to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal and Andorra), western France, and the northern Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa.

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Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality. Infanticide (zoology) and Eusociality are Sociobiology.

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Evaporation

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.

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Evolution (TV series)

Evolution is a 2001 documentary series by the American broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and WGBH on evolutionary biology, from the producers of NOVA.

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Evolutionary arms race

In evolutionary biology, an evolutionary arms race is an ongoing struggle between competing sets of co-evolving genes, phenotypic and behavioral traits that develop escalating adaptations and counter-adaptations against each other, resembling the geopolitical concept of an arms race.

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Evolutionary pressure

Evolutionary pressure, selective pressure or selection pressure is exerted by factors that reduce or increase reproductive success in a portion of a population, driving natural selection.

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Experiment

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

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Fauna of the United States

The fauna of the United States of America is all the animals living in the Continental United States and its surrounding seas and islands, the Hawaiian Archipelago, Alaska in the Arctic, and several island-territories in the Pacific and in the Caribbean.

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Felidae

Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.

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Female

An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.

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Fertilisation

Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a zygote and initiate its development into a new individual organism or offspring.

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Filial cannibalism

Filial cannibalism occurs when an adult individual of a species consumes all or part of the young of its own species or immediate offspring.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fitness (biology)

Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.

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Gene pool

The gene pool is the set of all genes, or genetic information, in any population, usually of a particular species.

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Gene-centered view of evolution

The gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential survival of competing genes, increasing the allele frequency of those alleles whose phenotypic trait effects successfully promote their own propagation.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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Group selection

Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual or gene.

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Hamster

Hamsters are rodents (order Rodentia) belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae, which contains 19 species classified in seven genera.

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Harem (zoology)

A harem is an animal group consisting of one or two males, a number of females, and their offspring. Infanticide (zoology) and harem (zoology) are ethology.

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Hierarchy

A hierarchy (from Greek:, from, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.

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Honey bee

A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.

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House wren

The house wren (Troglodytes aedon) is a very small bird of the wren family, Troglodytidae.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).

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Immorality

Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Infanticide

Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide (zoology) and Infanticide are population.

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Infanticide in carnivores

Infanticide is the killing of a neonate after birth. Infanticide (zoology) and Infanticide in carnivores are Infanticide.

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Infanticide in primates

Infanticide in non-human primates occurs when an individual kills its own or another individual's dependent young. Infanticide (zoology) and Infanticide in primates are Infanticide and zoology.

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Infanticide in rodents

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. Infanticide (zoology) and Infanticide in rodents are Infanticide.

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Infection

An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Intraspecific competition

Intraspecific competition is an interaction in population ecology, whereby members of the same species compete for limited resources.

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Japanese macaque

The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the snow monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species that is native to Japan.

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Kin selection

Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction. Infanticide (zoology) and Kin selection are Sociobiology.

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Lactation

Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.

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Lethocerus deyrollei

Lethocerus deyrollei is a species of giant water bug (family Belostomatidae) that traditionally is included in the genus Lethocerus, although recent authorities place it in the monotypic Kirkaldyia.

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Limiting factor

A limiting factor is a variable of a system that causes a noticeable change in output or another measure of a type of system.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.

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Male

Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mechanism (biology)

In biology, a mechanism is a system of causally interacting parts and processes that produce one or more effects.

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Meerkat

The meerkat (Suricata suricatta) or suricate is a small mongoose found in southern Africa.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Mongolian gerbil

The Mongolian gerbil or Mongolian jird (Meriones unguiculatus) is a rodent belonging to the subfamily Gerbillinae.

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Mother

A mother is the female parent of a child.

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Mouse

A mouse (mice) is a small rodent.

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Natural experiment

A natural experiment is a study in which individuals (or clusters of individuals) are exposed to the experimental and control conditions that are determined by nature or by other factors outside the control of the investigators.

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Natural selection

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. Infanticide (zoology) and Natural selection are ethology.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nervous system

In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.

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Nocturnality

Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day. Infanticide (zoology) and Nocturnality are ethology.

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North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University (NC State, North Carolina State, NC State University, or NCSU) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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Offspring

In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms. Infanticide (zoology) and offspring are zoology.

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Old World monkey

Old World monkeys are primates in the family Cercopithecidae.

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Ovulation

Ovulation is the release of eggs from the ovaries.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Parent

A parent is either the progenitor of a child or, in humans, it can refer to a caregiver or legal guardian, generally called an adoptive parent or step-parent.

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Parental investment

Parental investment, in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, is any parental expenditure (e.g. time, energy, resources) that benefits offspring. Infanticide (zoology) and parental investment are ethology.

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Parent–offspring conflict

Parent–offspring conflict (POC) is an expression coined in 1974 by Robert Trivers.

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Parricide

Parricide refers to the deliberate killing of one's own father and mother, spouse (husband or wife), children, and/or close relative.

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Paternal care

In biology, paternal care is parental investment provided by a male to his own offspring.

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Pig

The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Polygyny in animals

Polygyny (from Neo-Greek) is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a few males. Infanticide (zoology) and Polygyny in animals are ethology.

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Population control

Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population.

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Precociality and altriciality

Precocial species in birds and mammals are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Primates (journal)

Primates is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of primatology, and an official journal of the Japan Monkey Center at Kyoto University.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Proximate and ultimate causation

A proximate cause is an event which is closest to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).

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Rotifer

The rotifers (from the Latin rota, "wheel", and -fer, "bearing"), commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.

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Runt

In a group of animals (usually a litter of animals born in multiple births), a runt is a member which is significantly smaller or weaker than the others.

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Savaging

Savaging is a term used in the study of ethology that refers to aggressive behaviour displayed by the mother towards the offspring. Infanticide (zoology) and Savaging are ethology.

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Science News

Science News (SN) is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical journals.

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Semnopithecus

Semnopithecus is a genus of Old World monkeys native to the Indian subcontinent, with all species with the exception of two being commonly known as gray langurs.

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Sense of smell

The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived.

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Sex

Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes.

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Sexual cannibalism

Sexual cannibalism is when an animal, usually the female, cannibalizes its mate prior to, during, or after copulation.

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Sexual conflict

Sexual conflict or sexual antagonism occurs when the two sexes have conflicting optimal fitness strategies concerning reproduction, particularly over the mode and frequency of mating, potentially leading to an evolutionary arms race between males and females.

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Sexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete (haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes combines with another gamete to produce a zygote that develops into an organism composed of cells with two sets of chromosomes (diploid).

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Sexual selection

Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).

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Siblicide

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). Infanticide (zoology) and Siblicide are Sociobiology.

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Snub-nosed monkey

Snub-nosed monkeys are a group of Old World monkeys and make up the entirety of the genus Rhinopithecus.

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Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms within the same species, and encompasses any behavior in which one member affects the other.

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Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies. Infanticide (zoology) and Sociality are ethology and Sociobiology.

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Spawn (biology)

Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Squirrel

Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.

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Stegodyphus lineatus

Stegodyphus lineatus (desert spider) is the only European species of the spider genus Stegodyphus. Male S. lineatus can grow up to 12 mm long while females can grow up to 15 mm.

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Territory (animal)

In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression. Infanticide (zoology) and territory (animal) are ethology.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Trials of Life

The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 3 October 1990.

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Third World

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

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Unit of selection

A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organization (for example, an entity such as: a self-replicating molecule, a gene, a cell, an organism, a group, or a species) that is subject to natural selection.

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Urine

Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals.

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Vegetation

Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide.

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Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.

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Wader (American)

Birders in Canada and the United States refer to several families of long-legged wading birds in semi-aquatic ecosystems as waders.

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Wattled jacana

The wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) is a wader in the family Jacanidae found throughout much of South America east of the Andes, as well as western Panama and Trinidad.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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White stork

The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae.

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Wound

A wound is any disruption of or damage to living tissue, such as skin, mucous membranes, or organs.

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Zoology

ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_(zoology)

Also known as Filial infanticide, Infanticide (animals), Infanticide in animals, Infanticide in zoology.

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