21st March 2006, 6:29 PM
i'm not familiar with that female case.
think of this way regarding Lion infanticide. you're a male Lion, you just muscled your way in to a group of Lions with 6 females and 2 males. the 2 males hate you immeadiately, you fight them and either kill them or they become subserviant to you. Good, you're now the leader. Now what is the only function of any living thing on earth? make more of yourself and pread the you around. There's a problem though, all the lionesses have children and if you mate with them now, you'll either have baby's dying from lack of care or food as there would be too many, or you would have a lack of food for the adults which definitely aint happening. so the newly appointed leader will kill off a group of cubs, specifically targeting cubs from one mother.
Then after the killing, he'll go sit somewhere while the mother cals her cubs in vein, she'll find the babies (the lions never eat the cubs, just kill them) and within a few hours or days, she'll be in heat again. Now you, as the leader with no bloodline yet, can mate with her and start a family, spreading the you around. of course as soon as another wondering lion steps in, or another male decides to take you down, those babies are in jeoparody.
as humans we do the exact same thing when we have babies we dont want, except instead of killing them we put them up for adoption. Though some people still decide to kill the babies anyway. i cant imagine a teenage girl being so afraid of having a baby that she would put a living thing in a trash can or in a toilet, but it happens more than i'd like to know.
Alernatively, male lions are also know for killing infant males just because it doesnt want to have any other males around, another familiar human trait.
think of this way regarding Lion infanticide. you're a male Lion, you just muscled your way in to a group of Lions with 6 females and 2 males. the 2 males hate you immeadiately, you fight them and either kill them or they become subserviant to you. Good, you're now the leader. Now what is the only function of any living thing on earth? make more of yourself and pread the you around. There's a problem though, all the lionesses have children and if you mate with them now, you'll either have baby's dying from lack of care or food as there would be too many, or you would have a lack of food for the adults which definitely aint happening. so the newly appointed leader will kill off a group of cubs, specifically targeting cubs from one mother.
Then after the killing, he'll go sit somewhere while the mother cals her cubs in vein, she'll find the babies (the lions never eat the cubs, just kill them) and within a few hours or days, she'll be in heat again. Now you, as the leader with no bloodline yet, can mate with her and start a family, spreading the you around. of course as soon as another wondering lion steps in, or another male decides to take you down, those babies are in jeoparody.
as humans we do the exact same thing when we have babies we dont want, except instead of killing them we put them up for adoption. Though some people still decide to kill the babies anyway. i cant imagine a teenage girl being so afraid of having a baby that she would put a living thing in a trash can or in a toilet, but it happens more than i'd like to know.
Alernatively, male lions are also know for killing infant males just because it doesnt want to have any other males around, another familiar human trait.