Infanticide

Finance

Infanticide refers to the act of killing an infant, typically defined as a child under one year old. Legal systems worldwide treat infanticide as a serious criminal offense, oft...

science-behavior

In several monkey species, males and sometimes females may kill unweaned infants that are not their own. This behavior is best explained as an evolutionary reproductive strategy...

animals-wildlife

Male grizzly bears kill cubs primarily to bring fertile females back into estrus and to eliminate unrelated genetic heirs, a behavior rooted in evolutionary reproductive strateg...