Asshole alert!
They mooch, abandon, and kill. But it’s all in the name of survival.
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Researchers documented this behavior in a study published Tuesday in Royal Society Open Science.
But a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals that mother bears might actually use humans to help protect their young.
You might spot these birds in your neighborhood — they live just about everywhere in the U.S.
Mortality rates in the Serengeti are about 86 percent when cubs are below the age of two.
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It’s likely a strategy for the mother to conserve resources and increase the chances that their young will survive to adulthood.
In 2018, researchers documented the first instance of a group of killer whales murdering a baby in an act of infanticide.
They witnessed a gruesome event where a male chimp snatched a newborn baby from its mother and ate it in a tree.