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Definitions of cannibalism in various dictionaries:
noun - the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
CANNIBALISM - Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. To consume the same sp...
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| The eating of one's own species |
| Eating someone else |
| Key Carthaginian leader beheaded over ideology and illegal consumption |
| Like eating like |
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| Oct 24 2015 The Guardian - Quick crossword |
| Oct 13 2012 The Times - Cryptic |
| Nov 7 2009 The Times - Concise |
| Aug 8 2003 The Guardian - Quick crossword |
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| Meal sites of the Anasazi people have led to the controversial theory that they engaged in this horrific practice |
| Othello tells how he delighted Desdemona with tales of the Anthropophagi -- people named for this dreaded habit |
| U. of Colorado's "Alferd Packer Grill" was named after 1st man in U.S. convicted of this crime |
| Anthropophagy, another term for this practice, can really leave your bad taste in my mouth |
| Lamentations recounts that during a siege of Israel, many people resorted to this for food |
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| Medical bDefinitionb of bCANNIBALISMb. 1. : the usually ritualistic eating of human flesh by a human being. 2. : the eating of the flesh or the eggs of any animal by its own kind. |
| the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind |
| The practice of eating the flesh of one's own species. |
| The act of eating another of one's own species. |
| In speech, the occurrence of one word "eating" part or all of the next word, because the syllables ar the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt". |
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Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. To consume the same species, or show cannibalistic behavior, is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom, and has been recorded for more than 1,500 species. Human cannibalism is well-documented, both in ancient and recent times.The rate of cannibalism increases in nutritionally poor environments as individuals turn to other conspecific individuals as an additional food source. Cannibalism regulates population numbers, whereby resources such as food, shelter and territory become more readily available with the decrease of potential competition. Although it may benefit the individual, it has been shown that the presence of cannibalism decreases the expected survival rate of the whole population and increases the risk of consuming a relative. Other negative effects may include the increased risk of pathogen transmission as the encounter rate of hosts increases. Cannibalism, however, does not—as once believed—occur only as a result of extreme food shortage or artificial/unnatural conditions, but could also occur under natural conditions in a variety of species.Cannibalism seems to be especially prevalent in aquatic ecosystems, in which up to approximately 90% of the organisms engage in cannibalistic activity at some point in their life cycle. Cannibalism is also not restricted to carnivorous species, as it can be found in herbivores and detritivores. Sexual cannibalism normally involves the consumption of the male by the female individual before, during or after copulation. Other forms of cannibalism include size-structured cannibalism and intrauterine cannibalism. * Behavioural, physiological and morphological adaptations have evolved to decrease the rate of cannibalism in individual species. |