Among primates it is rare since they have long life history traits and it is disadvantageous to kill their own offspring. Remember, gorillas do not kill their own offspring, but instead others. Chimpanzees have been known to kill infants who may be their own offspring as far as they know (in chimpanzee society, paternity is never known).
2007-11-28 20:11:22
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answered by High Tide 3
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I know its not a primate, but i distinctly remember learning about lions at uni....male lions..or at least the alpha male makes sure that all the babies in its pride are its own offspring....I believe the term is called alturism. This is so it enables its DNA and genes etc are passed on and not others.
lead males are often challenged by other lions, mainly young males that have just left their pride ( they grew up in)...the winning male is the strongest and therefore will have better genes than the male it just beat, so that male will kill all the babies lions in the pride and then mates with females to ensure it has as many offspring as it can get....its in the lead males best interests to pass its " superior" genes onto as many young as it can and kill off any " inferior" offspring.
I would say there are a few other species that would do a similar thing for the same reasons ,but I don;t know terribly much about animals ( I'm more into plants..more peace loving).
2007-11-30 04:09:39
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answered by mareeclara 7
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I think a male gorilla might do that as they are holders of harems. I think when a young gorilla forces an older gorilla off his harem he may kill the young to bring the females in to estrus.
I am not sure, as that is an evolutionary prediction. You would have thought a primatologist would have answered this by now.
2007-11-29 00:13:05
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answered by Anonymous
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what I know is the male cat and monkey kills puppy in order to love their's mother,defininitely they don't know are the father,
the human must be different if is sapiens sapiens,the top of evulution.
2007-11-29 02:27:11
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answered by Anonymous
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there was a case of animals in their den being starved out by predators they ate their young and used the energy to escape, apart from that anything that kills a child and especially it's own deserves to be killed it's the lowest thing you could do typically it's usually junkie scum that do it
2007-11-29 01:37:35
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answered by Anonymous
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Monkeys, horses, cats etc. Not unusual. Unfortunate but far more common that you seem to realize.
2007-11-28 22:54:56
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answered by Anonymous
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every animal can and has done it. humans aren't outside of the system just because we want to be.
2007-11-29 03:56:56
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answered by nobudE 7
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depending on the situation - i thnk every species would do so
2007-11-28 22:54:48
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answered by Umbie 1
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