Why Do Animals Eat Their Own Babies?

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It might seem pretty dark from a human point of view, but for some animals, feasting on your own offspring is the best way to ensure you and your other babies might have a more successful life.
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@SciShow Год назад

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@KingOfGamesss Год назад

Why do some animals treat their Offspring as owned "Pets"?

@wintersoldier2835 Год назад

No hamster??? 🙄🙄

@johnmcm7690 Год назад

It's possible the skink also eats the eggs so the snake doesn't learn that's an easy meal.

@SynBelcuore Год назад

@@KingOfGamesss🎉

@KingOfGamesss Год назад

@@SynBelcuore Equals...not "Property"

@nicklindberg90 Год назад

If you have kids, you can kind of understand

@maxbattles3705 Год назад

Dude that comment is pure gold XD

@jaymevosburgh3660 Год назад

This is great 😂

@ProudMurican_PVT-GR137 Год назад

I think you should consider this. If it’s a urge, it may have been genetically transferred to your kids. I don’t know if I want that type of genome mixing in our pool of free loving genetics, so it may actually be the most moral and upstanding thing you can possibly do (by preventing that thought from happening in the future generations)

@lamecasuelas2 Год назад

Also if you don't have.....

@zed739 Год назад

Is that what happened to Charles' kid? Your family therapy sessions must be intense

@bentoth9555 Год назад

Takes "ordering off the kids menu" to a whole new meaning.

@kellydalstok8900 Год назад

Nothing like a piece of succulent baby, after all.

@theboneeater Год назад

Jfc

@st.haborym Год назад

HAH

@CrownofMischief Год назад

What a modest proposal that is

@brendakrieger7000 Год назад

Lol

@Goalsplus Год назад

In case # 1, denying the snake food could mean the snake dies and the lizard's next generation survives.

@juanausensi499 Год назад

Yep. That is, in fact, a very effective measure. Allowing the snake to eat your eggs only ensures it will be around the next time you try.

@DG-iw3yw 11 месяцев назад

Snakes go long times between meals, sometime even up to a year

@erichurst7897 Год назад

My sister and I got hamsters when we were kids, assured by the pet shop they were both female. Well, one was male, so the other got pregnant. The mother ate a couple of them, but left 2 alive. Then she died one night, and the babies ate most of her face.

@wolfkinic2062 Год назад

Why does every hamster story end so brutal

@zetazimmer4769 Год назад

Jesus

@kirtan__ Год назад

Sounds like the plot of a Shakespearean play

@Ellinor13579 Год назад

@@wolfkinic2062 because people don’t care enough about hamsters to care for them properly :(

@RubyDoobieScoo Год назад

Cute

@TragoudistrosMPH Год назад

Grandma: "You're so cute I could just eat you up!"

@KOKO-uu7yd Год назад

Yup. I was always gonna get "cooked up tender - especially my toes" 😂

@TragoudistrosMPH Год назад

@@KOKO-uu7yd specific... O_o You're grown, so you were probably the favorite who made it 😁

@CalLadyQED Год назад

#1. The skink eating her eggs when snake attacks are too frequent reminds me of a story I heard about a battle. When the women saw from the camp that their army was routed, they dashed their infants on the rocks. Rather than let their babies be enslaved, molested, and slaughtered by the advancing enemy, these women preferred to quickly kill their offspring themselves. Babies are too young to run or fight, and carrying them slows you down. I wish I could recall which history podcast I heard this on and what people groups were involved.

@CalLadyQED Год назад

I was also given the impression that the slavery situation in Brazil a few hundred years ago was so terrible that slave women would kill their own children. Can you imagine the pure despair a woman must be experiencing to murder her own child?

@catbojangles5391 Год назад

@CalLadyQED it's interesting to even call it murder, technically it is, obviously, but the death and torture was inevitable and it was mercy

@benlanning8795 Год назад

Fairly certain there's a bible verse in Psalms about dashing babies heads on rocks

@eaterbattery Год назад

Didn't the Japanese do this during WWII as they lost because they fought the USA would do unspeakable things to their kids?

@CalLadyQED Год назад

@@benlanning8795 , yes, you're thinking of Psalm 137:9

@acoupleofschoes Год назад

"...he either has to wait for his current clutch to hatch, or..." [AD Break] Domino's new loaded tots are here. Perfect

@peggedyourdad9560 Год назад

Sometimes ads come at just the right time lol.

@jayceewedmak9524 29 дней назад

Yes! 😅@@peggedyourdad9560

@spindash64 Год назад

Compared to the rest of the list, Giant Salamanders seem like straight up parent of the year material

@nevieland7951 Год назад

I was excited when I saw the thumbnail of this video (let me explain!!) I am a biology major at a research-heavy institution. We frequently hold biology seminars for doctors around the world to come and explain their findings. It's a crazy coincidence that most of the articles cited here for giant salamander research were actually presented to us at my college by Dr. Takahashi himself! I remembered seeing these images in this video also used in his presentation, which is just so cool to see^^

@catbojangles5391 Год назад

That is so cool. I bet that was really interesting

@Miss_Trillium Год назад

I was surprised rats and other rodent creatures didn't get mentioned--that was a rude awakening to me as a kid, we thought aww how cute mama's caring for her babies. Then, a day later, several were gone (despite being in a tight enclosure). We found a half eaten body, and later witnessed the mom chowing down

@AirLancer Год назад

One reason why comments on animal vids from people that overly humanize them ("See! Mamas always do what it takes to protect their kids" and that kind of noise) irk me.

@smeggiamagarwine 10 месяцев назад

sounds like your fault

@clovebeans713 9 месяцев назад

The 'tight enclosure' seems to be the problem.

@ookamiblade6318 Год назад

We had a cat in our foster program that got named Hannibal, her one surviving kitten was dubbed Clarice

@edl5731 Год назад

@Hank, for the skinks there might be a benefit for the species as a whole by the mom eating the eggs rather than letting the snake get some of her investing energy back. If the majority of the time when a snake attacks a nest it is eventually rewarded with meal it will seek out that type of nest, on the other hand if the snake frequently puts a lot of effort into a particular nest and never gets a reward, it will seek out an easier meal. So eating her own eggs might be the equivalent of humans using bear proof canisters -- the purpose isn't so much about saving the food (or even garbage) for ourselves, but rather to not teach the bear that humans are an easy meal source.

@CalLadyQED Год назад

I originally thought that's why campers and hikers are advised to fight back if a mountain lion (cougar/puma) attacks you: even if it kills you, you want them to learn that humans aren't easy meals. However, on further reflection, I realized that it's to increase your probability of survival. But both are good.

@Sienisota Год назад

That was my first thought: It discourages the snake, never getting anything out of the effort. So eating the eggs actually have several benefits.

@Sienisota Год назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Oh, the skink isn't likely to knowingly consider it. It's possible such actions became instinctive as they helped the ones who did it to survive better.

@juanausensi499 Год назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn They don't do it because they have imagined it first. It's just instinctual behaviour that is passed on because it works.

@ArDeeMee Год назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn If you cannot imagine at least two reasons for observable behavior patterns, maybe you need to rethink your stance.

@Jobobn1998 Год назад

In #5's case, I could definitely see that kind of feeding (especially given that it's done after the colony is well established) acting as a way to inoculate the larvae against potential pathogens. After all, small quantities of pathogenic material on the queen's mouthparts could be transferred to a larva and better prepare its immune system for the kinds of pathogens it will encounter as an adult.

@marcelo55869 Год назад

#5 is a reverse mammal. The babies nurse the parent...

@ConstantChaos1 Год назад

I think it might actually be the other way around, the larva's immune systems might be working as a shield for the queen, ants lack digestive cultures which makes them more susceptible to infections from the food they eat, if a larva is sick it will be removed but they can't check the health of the prey before attacking and can't necessarily ensure its safe to eat, if the babies get sick thats one thing but if the queen does it can spell ruin for the whole colony so they are a step to ensure that doesn't happen

@Jobobn1998 Год назад

@@ConstantChaos1 That's a really interesting take I hadn't considered! Thanks for posting that!

@ConstantChaos1 Год назад

@@Jobobn1998 well you inspired it by making me think of ant immunology lol

@angelitabecerra Год назад

Fascinating conversation y'all, I now have much to ponder, thank you

@Kakachi07 Год назад

People often forget or don’t realize, it’s humanity that is the weird ones having strayed from a path of survival and selective evolution.

@juanausensi499 Год назад

We are weird but not because of that. Animals that have few children (humans, elephants, whales...) very rarely, if ever, eat them.

@Kakachi07 Год назад

@@juanausensi499 eating babies aside humans are very weird, as we do not follow natural laws of survival anymore. Humanity's way of life is very unnatural compared to the rest of the worlds critters. We try to save everyone and everything, those who obsess over money become blinded to the worlds issues and for the most part, the genes we past forward aren't selected because they survived, they're selected because we allow them to stay in the gene pool when Nature would otherwise remove them, for example eating babies. While it is nice that we as a species can feel safe enough to live like this I do think it is bad to be so out of touch with nature like we are, cause when things get bad, and they will get bad, be it days from now or a few centuries from now, humanity will find it hard to cope if an extinction level event happens, normal peaceful every day life will be out the window for many.

@jonathanbyrdmusic Год назад

A classic story of boy meets grill.

@GailGurman 11 месяцев назад

In high school biology, we were each assigned a mouse in a cage. The cage lid had a triangular fold where we could put food. One day I came in to find that my mouse had given birth to several babies. That weekend was a long one. I put as much food in the fold as I could (I had an idea of what was going to happen because it had happened to my lab partner). Unfortunately, when I came back in the following Tuesday, all the babies were gone. The teacher explained that it was in the mother had a better chance of passing her genes to the next generation by keeping herself from starving and going on to have another litter. Of course, she had no way to know that she was in a lab and would never get to procreate again. :(

@jessicap4998 Год назад

Watching my mother raise 6 kids through their teenage years, including me... I understand why some animals eat their own babies.

@Etrancical Год назад

Exactly. These scientists just need to hire a couple of moms and then they'll understand

@drextrey Год назад

Or they could try to tend several babies at once. They will know the meaning of hell.

@asmrtpop2676 11 месяцев назад

@@EtrancicalA couple moms? They just need to hire a couple of people who don’t want to have kids, period, then ask what we would do without birth control/abortions. I get why animals eat their young 😂 I would do the same!

@gauismaximus595 11 месяцев назад

@@asmrtpop2676lol then it’ll show like in china or other populations which end up benign male dominated to the max. Fewer woman in china due to abortion, the government in-forced it and now there are less woman as most choose male babies due to Chinese work culture

@mlkcartonangel 10 месяцев назад

⁠⁠@@gauismaximus595 Selective abortions is what you’re referring to, and was pushed onto the population because of the one child policy they had. Abortion is not the issue you should be focusing on, dude. It’s not the same as sex selective abortion, which is disgusting and should be criticized. “Lol we’re gonna be like China with abortion legal!” No. Just… no. Besides, if you’re American, women have had that rolled back already, why are you crying?

@johnrigler8858 Год назад

I was a schoolteacher, so I thoroughly know why some animals eat their young!

@alga3106 Год назад

Uhhhhh….

@Bowie_E Год назад

Me, looking at my baby: "Because they're delicious"

@aviko9560 Год назад

@miketacos9034 Год назад

You could make entire dysfunctional family sitcoms from each of these animals.

@Scraggledust Год назад

Grew up in the country. Rabbits, cats, dogs, pigs, spiders, etc…seen each devour their babies up close. Nature is intriguing! Oh, and I didn’t eat my young😂

@RipRLeeErmey Год назад

You sure? It seems to be the popular thing to do in the country.

@marilynlucero9363 Год назад

I recommend giving it a shot! A real delecacy!

@aonghusofaolain8686 Год назад

Dogs!?

@dartmart9263 Год назад

In some countries, political parties eat their own also, if they don’t adhere to 100% of the herd groupthink/dogma 100% of the time.

@iopohable Год назад

yet

@xpatrstarx Год назад

I wonder if the skinks eating their own eggs helps deter predators spending the energy to try. Like "after all that and I got nothing"

@nornalhumsn7167 Год назад

I was just looking for an apartment after the application fees and requirements this feels relevant.

@missseaweed2462 Год назад

Good luck, fellow human.

@panqueque445 Год назад

"Dad, why are we behind the shed?" "Sorry son. You got a fever, I can't have you infecting your sister too" *cocks shotgun*

@Ikajo Год назад

*Looks at The Last of Us* ...yeah, checks out.

@panchatronv0.534 Год назад

The voices of generations Morgan freeman, David Attenborough, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Hank Green

@thatonecommentator7374 Год назад

This video made me realize that natures parental instinct are closer to a statistics class

@DJFracus 10 месяцев назад

all of evolution is a statistics class really, and human values like love, family bonds, and morals are just evolutionary byproducts

@techbro_4309 Год назад

Whenever people talk about animals eating their own babies, they impliy there malice or apathy involved in doing so. But it mostly seems like an act of desperation for factors beyond their control.

@nicolaskeroack7860 Год назад

But it mostly seems like an act of desperation for factors beyond their control. For example being a starving animal in the wild lol, and not a mormon on his sofa

@CalLadyQED Год назад

As it is with humans "mercy killing" their little ones

@MrCmon113 Год назад

We don't know whether the salamander feels apathetic or not.

@MrCmon113 Год назад

@@CalLadyQED Humans are frequently apathetic or cruel towards their offspring and they kill their offspring for various reasons, not just for food.

@Buglin_Burger7878 Год назад

@@MrCmon113 We vastly overestimate how special we are. We've proven animals can care, go into depression enough to die, and experience all sorts of things we do. The reality is anything we feel can be found in animals because we are animals.

@hitavi4965 Год назад

Honorable mention: scorpion mothers mate when there is a plentiplentiful food supply and keep their babies on their backs who grow by eating tiny food particles that drift by, and the mother scorpion will eat her babies when she feels hungry, the only ones growing to adulthood being the ones that were lucky enough to grow big enough to walk away before they got eaten

@jameshill2450 Год назад

It's not just the benefit of gaining the energy of eaint the eggs. The mother lizard also removes food from the area, showing the predator that there is nothing to be gained here and please don't bother trying again later.

@soranuareane 10 месяцев назад

I took group theory in University. My advisor said it won't count towards my major and isn't an approved elective, but I took it anyway. I had been wanting to learn it for several years and I'm so glad I took that class. Group theory is incredibly applicable in understanding the world; it's general knowledge I'm happy I have.

@wellsbeilgo9685 Год назад

Touching on yesterday's video, I really want to know why laboratory mice do this. At the lab I work at filial cannibalism is rampant. Just today I bagged another day old litter of half eaten corpses. From what Ive observed there is no consistent provocation setting this behavior off.

@drewdorkhead Год назад

something tells me the lab mice are stressed from being in the lab

@05Matz Год назад

@@drewdorkhead I mean, they're also inbred as heck because lab mice have to be _identical_ , that's a large part of the point, getting a bunch of near-clones so you can be absolutely sure that any differences between two groups are based on the one factor you deliberately changed. However, this also means that lab mice are... kind of strange and unhealthy in general, so as another recent Sci Show episode showed there are current efforts in making other lines of mice for laboratory use that are more 'normal' and come in a diverse set of varieties, but are still _relatively_ consistent within a variety. I'd totally believe that something in their rather limited genetics might either be making them more stressed, or making the babies seem sickly to their parents, or making the parents generally more likely to eat the babies, or some combination of factors. It might have very little to do with their actual treatment, but the nice thing about lab mice is they're all (more or less) the same, and scientists spend a lot of time staring at them, so if they have such a tendency (or something that triggers the behavior), it's almost certain somebody somewhere has explained it and wrote at least one paper on the subject.

@drewdorkhead Год назад

@@05Matz Completely agree, sounds like you've got some experience in that field. Bunch of factors in play considering they don't have normal "population" characteristics. I more of just meant that the conditions they are raised and kept in could make them more susceptible to being stressed

@canaanval Год назад

I used to work with a cat breeder, one morning I went in to feed and clean everybody, got to the room that had a cat and her recent litter....was a huge shock to see a kitten head sitting on the floor, just staring at me! Mom had eaten the rest of the body😵

@susannehuber3996 Год назад

OMG that is traumatic.

@carb_8781 11 месяцев назад

that happened to my childhood best friend's cat's babies... multiple times. she was well taken care of... it was soooooo weird and scary for us little kids😭

@PhawnixAndJewel Год назад

Imagine you're just sitting in your crib vibin' and your parents are looking at you with a fork and knife

@raulperez375 Год назад

This reminds me of an ecological study on overpopulation I once read about. A population of beetles...or something was bred selecting for high fecundity. Over multiple generations, as the population increased and increased, the larval stage became longer and the larvae themselves became more defenseless. The population had selected for traits that made it easier to eat their children.

@hyoroemongaming569 Год назад

I would link this to why school only react when kids fight back against bullies

@crystaldyer3735 Год назад

I'm a bit surprised no birds made the list. They frequently eat their own eggs and chicks if there is a genetic defect or they don't think the environment can sustain them. Adult chickens will even happily cannibalize each other if given the chance. Once they see blood, they are drawn to it like sharks.

@JabbarTV1 Год назад

Mama Cats do it when they have any born dead kitten, removing potential health risk for other kittens and recovering some strength after grueling labor

@miss_anthrope5198 Год назад

When I was a kid we had a couple of dogs, and one of them was specially aggressive. She was quite vicious which made us really scared of her. She ended up having 6 puppies, and I vividly remember the dog securing her territory and attacking anyone who dared come touch her newborns, we all thought she was just being protective of her puppies, as nature would posit. The next day, my dad went to check up on the dog and he found out there were only three puppies left, there was dry blood strewn all over, and that was not even the most horrific part. My dad managed to take away the puppies and later that day I recall seeing the dog with something dark in it's mouth, going towards the garden. I told my aunt, and when the dog had left the area she dug up where the dog had kept its treasure only to find that it was one of her puppies head.

@Boomer289-ol2vv 11 месяцев назад

She was stressed

@obsiangravel 10 месяцев назад

@@Boomer289-ol2vv she was possessed

@deezenx Год назад

When he said, "gobble up the infected!" I lost it!😂 Eat the zombies before they can eat you.🤣🤣🤣

@dont-worry-about-it- Год назад

I remember many years ago when i was in 5th grade we were learning about aquariums and terrariums and got to make some in groups out of 2 liter bottles, and we had guppies and little snails for our aquariums. Well, we put them in the cut in half 2 liter bottle and then went to lunch, and when we came back most of the groups were missing guppies and some had half eaten ones. We got to have an unexpected lesson on cannibalism that day 😅

@JRoss-zxzx Год назад

Classic case of "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it" 😂

@MaximeDecroo Год назад

Yet, when you say "Please do". They won't. Maybe because they want you to suffer. Or because they care more about staying out of trouble than sparing you a life of misery. Either way, it's vile.

@ashutoshkukreti6706 Год назад

@@MaximeDecroo cringe

@Brianpeckin Год назад

Infinite food glitch

@MrBarcode Год назад

I was a 4H kid. I raised rabbits for show but if we didnt carefully monitor and watch the mothers we could wake up and find that the rabbit, a consummate herbivore that only ate plants. could, and would eat their children if they were runts sometimes. Not every time but we found a lot of tiny feet in those nest boxes. Even chickens will cannibalize themselves and it doesnt take a food shortage to initiate it

@vonries Год назад

There's some kind of fish that sucks up all of their babies everytime there is a predator nearby. As soon as the danger passes they spit them back out again.

@mikamekaze Год назад

Every season the National Aviary in Pittsburgh hosts some peregrine falcon cams for the birds that nest in the cities, and a few years ago a female brooded three eggs fully to hatching, and then ate the babies one by one as they hatched. Since she did it immediately, researches that usually check and band the birds never even got their hands on the chicks, so they had no way of knowing if she did it because the babies were unwell in some way or otherwise. Still a mystery!

@luciesimpson6437 Год назад

It's sometimes easy to forget that species are in fact individuals with imperfect physiology and individual behavours. For example, if a female falcon had been nest-raiding before, she wouldn't necessarily distinguish between 'my young' and 'yummy hatchlings'. Or, there could be a confounding factor related not to the chicks' health, but to the parent's compromised ability to develop a parental bond and appropriate behaviours.

@mikamekaze Год назад

@@luciesimpson6437 exactly! There are so many factors that could contribute to it, and it all happened so fast. It's a fascinating world!

@liamzakhaev 11 месяцев назад

@@luciesimpson6437 Oh god the "thought process" going from "my eggs my darling babies" to "who left these delicious morsels here?"

@lorrygoth Год назад

Hey! I knew about vampire ants from when I used to watch Ants Canada. Cool to see Sci Show cover rhem.

@chonkyloreraccoon3686 Год назад

I had a box turtle who laid an egg (infertile) and then immediately turn around and start eating it

@Iroxinping Год назад

ants canada had some vampire ants for a while and documented their feeding on the larve i'm pretty sure he would love it if you used some of his content as long as you said it was from him....he'd probably love to be interviewed or participate as a guest if you do some ant videos ;)

@stephanieparker1250 Год назад

6:32 those teeny little legs on the giant salamanders 😂😂

@suzannemenuet947 Год назад

I had a female rabbit that gave birth over night. The next morning, there were 6 little baby heads with her. I'm off of rabbits for life.😂

@l.n.3372 Год назад

That's shocking to me. I would have thought rabbits never ate meat.

@xXRealXx Год назад

@@l.n.3372 it's common for rabbits to eat their children.

@suzannemenuet947 Год назад

@@l.n.3372 Supposedly, a lot of first time mothers do it, or it's caused by stress.

@suicune2001 Год назад

@@l.n.3372 Basically all herbivores eat meat for one reason or another. If they eat too much of it, the saturated fat causes them heart disease.

@samsonsoturian6013 Год назад

The males get territorial like that. I had one kill the first litter... Crazy thing is, until then I didn't understand why other rabbit farmers kept the males separated

@thekatsup Год назад

Because if you eat someone else's babies, they tend to get upset.

@smooth3333 Год назад

Ah yes, the "we don't have to worry about saving up to send this one to college" of the animal kingdom.

@Gibsothian Год назад

I JUST did an presentation on Monday on a recent journal article about filial cannibalism in Hellbender Salamanders. Sending this to my professor because I think she’ll appreciate the coincidence :)

@kaktees Год назад

Still tryna figure out why Piggy (my female Syrian hamster) ate half of her newborns. Was I the threat or was she just hungry? One moment I saw her holding on to a baby the next moment that baby was headless 🤷🏻‍♀️

@urlocalcrypt1d762 Год назад

Stress of any kind can cause this. Too small of a cage, a predatory animal in the house, or you can be causing it. A lot of times it's due to the cage being too small, causing chronic stress

@Microtonal_Cats Год назад

I went to a school called Church Farm School. Worked on the school farm (and went to church). Saw mother pigs eat dead pigs after mothers accidentally rolled over on them and crushing them.

@heavymetalbassist5 Год назад

If your chickens have a worm load they will eat their own eggs to help get a protein boost to help fight off the parasites.

@nicolaskeroack7860 Год назад

Great imagery, I can picture the scene

@halfling49 Год назад

Also when caring for chickens, it's vital to mix in shells with their feed, lest they eat their own eggs in a bid to boost their calcium levels

@hartoramasenju4012 Год назад

One also interesting case of filial cannibalism is male calico cat. Male calico cat is an anomaly, they have XXY chromosome (Klinefelter syndrome, male cat can only naturally orange or black cuz they only have one X chromosome). Mama cat will eat them right after giving birth if she spot them. One of my cat named Owi is male calico, when my neighbor cat giving birth I instantly separate 3 of the calico offsprings, turns out one of them is a male. One other thing that I notice that every other cat is hostile to Owi, like literally every cat in my neighbourhood, when Owi approach them they instantly hiss at him or attack him. I don't really know the reason of this. Owi live for 6 years, his early life was a struggle cuz he got sick easily and severely underweight cuz he only drink formula milk, but he strive and able to grow up to be a healthy and chonky boi

@hartoramasenju4012 Год назад

@Talitha yes, that's why I never allow him to go out without me

@Alice3456able 10 месяцев назад

SciShow consistently delivering quality content as always. Been a while since I watched one but as usual impressed with all the interesting content packed into a video and so glad to see Hank!

@cairosilver2932 11 месяцев назад

"So why do animals eat their own babies" First image is of a dog with puppies We all fear what we might be about to be shown

@KnowledgeCat 6 месяцев назад

Really eye-opening content about a bizarre aspect of animal behavior. The explanations provided are both intriguing and enlightening!

@cassa995 Год назад

Why don't we?

@chriswa3346 Год назад

Anakin the Younglingslayer likes this video.

@capnstewy55 Год назад

Yeah eating the stragglers is a solid parenting strategy.

@peterjf7723 Год назад

AFRICAN clawed frogs will willingly eat their own tadpoles - but they like eating those of an endangered South African frog even more.

@ky1ebetts Год назад

Anyone who has ever kept Goldfish knows baby eating all too well.

@MaddysinLeigh 10 месяцев назад

That’s why I had a separate fish bowl for the babies.

@PlugInKali Год назад

There are no mammals and birds among these examples, but I'm pretty sure there are instances of mothers from these classes eating their offspring. Rodents, for example, come to mind. I'm sure there aren't many cases, though, due to the very nature of mammals and birds, and only ocurr in extreme circumstances (sickly babies, stillborn).

@wavion2 Год назад

The best one is crab. The way they casually pick them up one at a time and plop them in their mouth like popcorn. It's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying.

@hidesbehindpseudonym1920 Год назад

Some analytics recommendation site must be recommending videos about animals eating their own babies... Tsuki just made a video about this.

@marcelosinico Год назад

Nice to see that some of nowadays parent's behavior can be explained by science.

@Ayumu31 Год назад

when I was a little I once saw a little pup in the streets get run over by a car . Then it's mom n other dogs of their gang gathered together. . All I remember was there was only some blood after they were gone . Idk if they ate it or the dogs ate it n the mother took a part way but I do remember they fighting to get to that spot .

@Trials_By_Errors Год назад

It's all about Risk and Returns. - Mr. Horney Fish

@jeanku Год назад

This video had the vibes of the old SciShow, the SciShow I fell in love with... I would like more videos with this style, and thank you.

@vice.nor.virtue Год назад

Yeah I’m with you. It feels like pre-pandemic sci show was just banger after banger, and now they’re consistently not as interesting. Im here like, did they fully mine _all_ of the genuinely interesting science stuff on earth and now there’s no good content left to explore or what??

@mags4186 Год назад

These titles and editing are really nice lately

@jaymevosburgh3660 Год назад

Well the simplest answer to this question? It's because they taste so dang delicious!

@yxtheweird1710 Год назад

This is amazingly gruesome, biology is so awesome haha

@EnglishLearnersHere Год назад

Learned a lot from your video! ❤

@HebuTheLoneWolf Год назад

correct me if im wrong but dont lions do this too? like i know the male will kill other males offspring's when they take over the pride, but i think the lioness will also do that if the male is not up for the task and they force the male to leave and then kill the cups

@joeasher2876 Год назад

I'm surprised that they didn't mention the zoo where the jet fighters flew past low to the ground and stressed a whole load of animals, including Tigers, into eating their offspring.

@frankowsianik168 Год назад

Could it be that some animals find that their babies are magically delicious??? 🌈 ❤🌛⭐️🍀♦️🤣

@hicknopunk Год назад

Before birth control, the only solution was to eat real baby back ribs...dripping with sauce.

@JoshTigerheart Год назад

A very different kind of baby back ribs.

@dashielleonard7842 Год назад

This whole video I was waiting for the Dracula Ants! Thank you!

@chrisfromsouthaus2735 Год назад

Gives "favourite child" a whole new slant

@shifty1927 Год назад

Same reason people smell their farts. Everyone loves their own brand.😂

@calebdonaldson8770 Год назад

I appreciate that reference!

@shifty1927 Год назад

@@calebdonaldson8770 whats the reference?

@calebdonaldson8770 Год назад

@@shifty1927 Fat Bastard. Austin Powers 3.

@phoebepalydovas9881 Год назад

salamander dad1 : my brood is beginning to succumb to fungal infection! i do not know what to do! salamander dad 2: friend, i may have a remedy! just a little lifestyle change, nothing too fancy. a...a modest proposal, if you will.

@marcusceti2820 Год назад

A Swift solution indeed!

@UrvineSpiegel Год назад

Gonna call my parents and thank them for not eating me.

@blondbraid7986 11 месяцев назад

All conservatives ranting about how motherhood comes "naturally" to anyone female should watch this video.

@ai965 Год назад

Cats eat their stillborn babies to refuel, keep the area around their surviving babies clean, and to avoid pests being attracted.

@connorlyon2354 11 месяцев назад

Honestly the Dracula ants are basically just mammals in reverse

@fluffybbpeachhun6768 Год назад

As a woman that saw cat cannibalisim,this is still intense

@duanjisomar Год назад

Sun skinks also can be found here in the philippines

@iambiggus Год назад

Have you tried raising a teen???

@kathleenwoods8416 Год назад

I remember that episode of walking with. 😄

@buhbird4698 Год назад

I really like the thumbnail, idk why but it makes me laugh 😂

@B2WM Год назад

I'm picturing the play Starship by Starkid and the alien bug queen declaring roles: "nutrition!" "Yay!"

@carefir 11 месяцев назад

Wow! I learned so much from this episode of FreakSho... sorry I mean SciShow

@hilliard665 Год назад

I was hoping you would touch on dogs, many times I've seen the mum eat stillborn babies which makes total sense imo as it's just energy for a struggling mummy who has many mouths to feed at that point