Term for Eating the Young?

[Michael Schmitt]

At 01:58 07.10.01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Anyone out there know the term used to describe animal species
>that eat their young?
>Robin Leech
>

cronism or kronismus

according to p. 59 in Lincoln, R.J.; Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982): A
dictionary of ecology, evolution and systematics. Cambridge Univ. Press,
Cambridge.

It is after King Kronos (an ancient Greek mythological figure) who -
inadvertedly - ate his sons.

                                Best wishes
                                Michael Schmitt


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