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Baby fever is a strong sudden desire for someone to have their own child. It is prevalent within several cultures and is especially prevalent within women. [1] [2]
A five-year-old girl in Peru with a desire to eat earth (geophagia). Wood engraving by E. Riou, 1860s. Geophagia is nearly universal around the world in tribal and traditional rural societies (although apparently it has not been documented in Japan or Korea). [16] In the ancient world, several writers noted the phenomenon of geophagia.
Desert Spider, Stegodyphus lineatus, one of the best-described species that participates in matriphagy Matriphagy is the consumption of the mother by her offspring. [1] [2] The behavior generally takes place within the first few weeks of life and has been documented in some species of insects, nematode worms, pseudoscorpions, and other arachnids as well as in caecilian amphibians.
Causes of diarrhea from stress. At baseline, stress-induced diarrhea is caused by stress, and it’s common to experience it at some point. However, having certain underlying conditions may make ...
“Histamine is released in the body and enters the gastrointestinal tract, which can cause gas, bloating, nausea, stomach pains and diarrhea.” He notes specific foods that can make seasonal ...
Start the conversation like this: “I understand that timing might seem like the main factor to you, but there’s a lot else I have to consider,” she suggests.
[7] [14] Humans spend a lot of their time caring for their children as they develop whereas other species stand on their own from when they are born. The faster an infant develops, the higher the reproductive output of a female can be. [17] So in humans, the cost of slow development of their infants is that humans reproduce relatively slowly.
In primates, resource competition is a prime motivator for infanticide. Infanticide motivated by resource competition can occur both outside of and within familial groups. Dominant, high ranking, female chimpanzees have been shown to more often aggress towards a lower ranking female and her infant due to resource competition. [5]