scholarly journals Extra interesting phenomenon in the experiment: infanticide and cannibalism in Tupaia belangeri

Author(s):  
Dongmin Hou ◽  
Hongbi Peng ◽  
Zhengkun Wang ◽  
Wanlong Zhu

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

2007 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Remple ◽  
Jamie L. Reed ◽  
Iwona Stepniewska ◽  
David C. Lyon ◽  
Jon H. Kaas

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 984-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perris Flügge, Eberhard Fuchs, Ebe

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 3136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Samuels ◽  
John T. Siegwart ◽  
Wenjie Zhan ◽  
Lisa Hethcox ◽  
Melissa Chimento ◽  
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SLEEP ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 879-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Coolen ◽  
Kerstin Hoffmann ◽  
R. Paulien Barf ◽  
Eberhard Fuchs ◽  
Peter Meerlo

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