Extra interesting phenomenon in the experiment: infanticide and
cannibalism in Tupaia belangeri
Abstract
Maternal infanticide and cannibalism, whereby a mother killing and
consumes her own offspring, occurs in various animal taxa. The ability
of the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) to kill and consume conspecifics is
accepted, but the extent of its occurrence is not fully understood due
to difficulty in observation and uneven reporting. Here we discover
extra interesting phenomenonand that two tree shrew respectively eating
the neonate in two different experiments. This was the first recorded of
evidence by dynam