• For instance, in many nest-guarding fishes, the male parent invests more heavily in parental care than does the female and filial cannibalism (the consumption of current offspring by a parent) may result in partial or complete brood loss. (tristateactorstheater.org)
  • In addition to these conventional reasons, we investigated the effects of endocrinological constraint on early total filial cannibalism in fish in which care-giving males eat all eggs and restart reproduction when tending a small number of eggs. (mendeley.com)
  • The occurrence of total filial cannibalism in male Rhabdoblennius nitidus, a paternal brooding blennid fish with androgen-dependent brood cycling, was strongly associated with decreased plasma 11-ketotestosterone levels, suggesting that males in which it was difficult to exhibit courtship behavior began to cannibalize eggs. (mendeley.com)
  • This question is particularly difficult, since the coming into being of the cannibal implies the disappearance of other beings. (berfrois.com)
  • Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's own species and usually refers to human beings eating other humans (sometimes called anthropophagy ). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's own species and, while it does exist in non-human species, the term most often refers to human beings eating other humans. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • While not a widespread phenomenon in nature, cannibalism is nonetheless a common practice for some species. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Cannibalism and interference competition can readily be studied with density manipulations, although a problem mentioned earlier may arise: these processes often occur among siblings, during the aggregated immature stages of a species that has mobile adults. (tristateactorstheater.org)
  • And reasons behind this behaviour differ from species to species, including sexual cannibalism as seen in the praying mantis, or infanticide, as seen in many vertebrates, or even include cultural reasons, as seen in humans. (themunicheye.com)
  • The next logical question is, would the need for calories and protein to remain alive make cannibalism (not murder) acceptable or moral? (armageddonmedicine.net)
  • These policies were extremely heavily questioned by the people of Meó, as Megurú was an advocate of murder, cannibalism, arson, and witchcraft - which he held were activities only the royal class were allowed to perform. (reexplo.red)
  • This has led to a new phenomenon known as "data cannibalism," where AI models learn from data created by other AI models. (ecosleek.in)
  • As the author explains, "The main significance of this case is that cannibalism of adult victims has not previously been seen in any wild non-human primates and consequently this expands on our knowledge of the cannibalism phenomenon as well as the flexibility of diet and behavior of mouse lemurs. (themunicheye.com)
  • Cannibalism was reported in Mexico , the flower wars of the Aztec Civilization being considered as the most massive manifestation of cannibalism. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • If "we can't silence our thoughts about the person [the meat] came from," they claim, then this is simply a manifestation of our anti-cannibalism "bias" rearing its ugly head. (newstarget.com)
  • Many people develop disgust for all kinds of meat, while morticians and surgeons quickly adapt to the initially difficult experience of handling dead bodies," the two authors write in their paper. (newstarget.com)
  • It's difficult to determine all the consequences of auto-vampirism due to the difficulty of finding people who drink their own blood. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Piazza and McLatchie, most people find cannibalism disgusting and abhorrent not because it actually is, but because society has trained everyone to think this way. (newstarget.com)
  • If it weren't for the concept being "overridden by our feelings of repulsion and disgust," more people would accept cannibalism as normal, these two contend, with the apparent approval of Newsweek . (newstarget.com)
  • This could make it more difficult for people to distinguish between real and fake content, which could have serious implications for our security and privacy. (ecosleek.in)
  • You mention at some point a partial defense by Robert Boyle of the practice of cannibalism, on the grounds that our current eating practices are already perfectly disgusting, for example, eating the entrails of crustaceans, mixing dung into cheese to give it flavor, and so on. (berfrois.com)
  • Cannibalism has been attributed to many different tribes and ethnicities in the past, but the degree to which it has actually occurred and been socially sanctioned is an extremely controversial topic in anthropology , owing to the severe taboo against its practice in most cultures . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Some anthropologists have argued that cannibalism was almost non-existent and view claims of cannibalism with extreme skepticism , while others argued that the practice was common in pre-state societies. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • While justification exists under extreme conditions, it is difficult to reconcile the idea of one human family with the practice of eating another member of such a family. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • It can be noted from the outset that it is difficult to apprehend the historical unicity of sport and its practice, or its present-day assimilation to the category of games. (bvsalud.org)
  • We have seen that vegetarianism, cannibalism, the eating of raw meat, and omission of sacrifice subvert the cosmological hierarchy. (tourguidescrete.com)
  • Data cannibalism can have a number of negative consequences. (ecosleek.in)
  • In addition to the negative consequences mentioned above, data cannibalism could also lead to other problems, such as the spread of spam and malware. (ecosleek.in)
  • And then he starred in a film about cannibals called Bones and All … which was released at the same time his CMBYN co-star, Armie Hammer , was making headlines for allegedly being into cannibalism IRL. (queerty.com)
  • Newsweek seems to think so, as the left-leaning media outlet recently published an outlandish piece pushing the notion that it might be time for human beings to rethink the "ultimate taboo" of cannibalism as the next step forward for "progress. (newstarget.com)
  • Citing a paper published by psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom, Newsweek makes the proposition that cannibalism might not be all that bad after all because some cultures throughout the world have been doing it since the beginning of time. (newstarget.com)
  • The development of caruncles and this is supposed to indicate the most difficult time in the life of young turkey. (pioneerthinking.com)
  • Those activists witnessed some of the most brutal battles from within, and at the same time they were facing some of our most difficult enemies from the outside. (windycitytimes.com)
  • Its stated goal is to get readers to rethink the idea of cannibalism by de-coupling it from the notion of "personhood and flesh. (newstarget.com)
  • Most vorarephiles are aware of the improbability of the paraphilia and are largely uninterested in the idea of cannibalism . (wikifur.com)
  • To prevent cannibalism, websites should consider consolidating similar pages into more comprehensive content, which will increase that page's ranking power. (metatags.org)
  • Third, data cannibalism can lead to the creation of meaningless content. (ecosleek.in)
  • As such, cannibalism of the keyword "cannibalizes" its results by splitting conversions between CTR, links, content, and (often) two pages that should be one. (yashaaglobal.com)
  • It will be difficult for the Democrats to control their enthusiasm. (wnd.com)
  • Poults should be debeaked to control feather picking and cannibalism. (pioneerthinking.com)
  • So let's take a look at how to control cannibalism in chickens once it starts. (karinokada.com)
  • Blinders or specs or so-called peepers prevent or control cannibalism by preventing chickens from seeing straight ahead in order to shoot. (karinokada.com)
  • No measure of how to control cannibalism in chickens will be successful until the conditions that led to the problem are first eliminated. (karinokada.com)
  • The female laid four eggs, and after an incubation period of 30-32 days all the eggs hatched, but only two chicks survived after cannibalism among the chicks. (bvsalud.org)
  • Observations like this one depict cannibalism as existing on a continuum with other dietary practices, rather than being a radical departure from our usual practices, and this in turn inserts early modern discussions of cannibalism into the much broader, and older, history of what might be called "dietary philosophy," a concern that is omnipresent in Greek philosophy, and perhaps never really went away. (berfrois.com)
  • But if you were a part of the early days of the U.S. movement for homosexual rights, you probably didn't understand how natural these acts of cannibalism are to many groups as they crawl from the primordial soup and begin to walk proud and upright. (windycitytimes.com)
  • And no attempt to stop cannibalism once it has started is as effective as managing your flock to prevent the problem from starting in the first place. (karinokada.com)
  • A rare case of cannibalism involving two adult mouse lemurs in Kirindy, Western Madagascar, is reported in the May 23 issue of The American Journal of Primatology. (themunicheye.com)
  • Have you sensed that readers have had trouble coming to terms with how there could be an intellectual history of cannibalism at all? (berfrois.com)
  • Stopping short of actually promoting cannibalism, since they claim "there is no need to overcome our repulsion for the foreseeable future," Piazza and McLatchie contend that humans should start trying to overcome their aversion to human flesh because one day they might have to eat human flesh in order to survive. (newstarget.com)
  • Red lighting gives everything a pinkish hue, making the blood sores more difficult for chickens to identify. (karinokada.com)
  • Do you see the issue of cannibalism as embedded within a larger debate about carnivorism, the danger of beans, according to the Pythagoreans, and in general about, let's say, the proper maintenance of the corporeal substance? (berfrois.com)
  • And according to AP , he wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, "I look forward to beginning what will be a long, difficult process of putting my life back together now that my name has been cleared. (queerty.com)
  • But there is something about life on a whaling ship, the extremely difficult work-it reflects something about the American culture, looking through a historical lens. (dancemagazine.com)
  • This transformation, while subtle at first, would ultimately result in a cursed being that looked hardly human at all and would possess supernatural powers making it more difficult than ever to kill. (unexplainable.net)
  • Respect for the physical body, and the concern for the wishes of the departed person, should be considered, even under conditions where cannibalism is necessary for survival. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Difficult environmental conditions, leading to scarce resources and as a consequence starvation, may also trigger such behaviour. (themunicheye.com)
  • It is difficult to convince anyone without an open mind of what could happen in the future beyond our comprehension. (zombiefun.com)
  • Cannibalism of keywords can also occur when optimizing posts with focus keywords that are not the same but are almost the same. (yashaaglobal.com)
  • By the way, it's really difficult for me to call this game an 'RPG', because your interactions with NPCs are very basic. (nma-fallout.com)
  • Even though this is an extremely well-made film, it's difficult to know who will enjoy it, as it's far too arty for horror genre fans and much too grisly for arthouse moviegoers. (contactmusic.com)
  • This makes it difficult for users to determine which page to visit, and it can negatively impact how Google determines relevancy. (metatags.org)