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cannibalism

In zoology, the eating of any animal by another member of the same species. Certain ants regularly consume injured immatures and, when food is scarce, eat healthy immatures; this practice allows the adults to survive the food shortage and live to breed again. Male lions taking over a pride may kill and eat the existing young. After losing her cubs the mother will become impregnated by the new dominant male, thereby ensuring his genetic contribution. Aquarium guppies sometimes regulate their population size by eating most of their young.

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anthropophagy
Jan 01, 1988; Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 an|thro|poph|a|gy (an|thro pf' je, -thr-) n. cannibalism --an|thro|popha|gous (-pf' gs)...
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Brasil 1920-1950: From Anthropophagy to Brasilia.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2000; IVAM Brazilian fever? Judging by the rash of shows, in Brazil as well as abroad, occasioned by the quincentennial of the...
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American `fed missing boy to his neighbours 'ANTHROPOPHAGY
Apr 01, 2001; The subject of cannibalism is looming large in the American press at the moment with preparations for the trial this summer of...
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Anthropophagy - Fine old cannibals.(evidence of 12th-century cannibalism found in Colorado)(Brief Article)
Sep 09, 2000; THE merest whiff of cannibalism in a story is enough to whet most journalists' appetites, but archaeologists and anthropologists...
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"Tupy or not tupy?" Examining Hybridity in Contemporary Brazilian Art
Jan 01, 2006; Updating the 1920s notion of Anthropophagy developed to symbolize through cannibalistic ritual the process of cultural...
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