What are the pros of cannibalism? Cannibalismregulates population numbers and benefitsthe cannibalistic individual and its kin as resources such as extra shelter, territory and food are freed; thereby increasing the fitness of the cannibal; by lowering crowding effects. ...
with nearly instant results. While Mrs. Li becomes more attractive, the mother of the fetus isn’t faring as well, and soon Mrs. Li finds out there are a few unpleasant side effects. A shorter version ofDumplingsalso appears in the gory horror anthologyThree…Extremes, along with films by...
There is one Body, but even those outside this Body may (and do) enjoy some of the effects of the Soul of this Body, including sanctifying grace and salvation. Catechumens are not yet members of the Church, but they receive the effects of baptism by desire, and may be saved if they...
This was the case even when cannibal parents were given little or no energy benefit from the extra food—or when abandoned offspring were assumed to die. "Our findings suggest that surprisingly, filial cannibalism and offspring abandonment can function as forms of parental care, by increasing total...
Feather pecking (FP) is a serious welfare issue in the poultry industry, associated with damage to the feathers, injury to body parts, and even death due to cannibalism [1,2,3,4,5]. Based on both the cause and its effects, FP is mainly categorized into five different types: (a) aggr...
Effects of food quality on trade-offs among growth, immunity and survival in the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella. Insect Sci. 2015, 22, 431–439. [CrossRef] [PubMed] 51. Krieg, A. Chapter 11: Diseases caused by bacteria and other procaryotes. In Epizootiology of Insect Diseases; ...