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Infanticide not only reduces intraspecific competition between the incumbent's offspring and those of other males but also increases the parental investment afforded to their own young, and allows females to become fertile faster. [12] This is because females of this species, as well as many other mammals, do not ovulate during lactation. It ...
Some rodent species (most typically males) will take the chance to kill neonates that are unrelated to them should opportunity permit. There is thought to be several benefits by doing so, which not only include nutrition benefits (particularly where food is in short supply [8]) but also non-direct benefits, such as allowing access to more resources, improving reproductive opportunities and the ...
Sleep can follow a physiological or behavioral definition. In the physiological sense, sleep is a state characterized by reversible unconsciousness, special brainwave patterns, sporadic eye movement, loss of muscle tone (possibly with some exceptions; see below regarding the sleep of birds and of aquatic mammals), and a compensatory increase following deprivation of the state, this last known ...
Infanticide in non-human primates occurs as a result of exploitation when the individuals performing the infanticide directly benefit from consumption or use of their victim. [1] The individual can become a resource: food ( cannibalism ); a protective buffer against aggression, or a prop to obtain maternal experience.
"We got a puppy from a coworker. She was about 2.5 months old. She's a Golden Lab mix now over 3 months. He told us she was house-trained and crate-trained and would sleep the night. The first two ...
Subordinate females do not conceive or abort early, but do lactate after the dominant female gives birth and participate in communal nursing. When the subordinate females leave the parental pack they will become fully reproductively active in new groups they help establish.
A Louisiana native whose husband tried to secretly abort their baby with abortion-inducing pills described her "terrifying experience" to lawmakers Tuesday who advanced a bill that would create a ...
The Gamecocks jumped out to an early 14-0 lead and then scored 10 straight in the third quarter to put the Aggies away. Texas A&M briefly took a 20-17 lead in the second quarter after two straight ...