What animal eats its own kind?

Answer 1

Cannibal

Is that reaaly it? When a human eats a human that is what it is called, but what about other creatures? Is there no name b/c for non-humans- because they lack morals, areuncivilized.....- it is perhaps a normal thing in some species?

yes it is what it's called, there could be a fancier word but wait till technology advances in 50 years so you can search the definition instead of the word

Answer 2

In short, no. Animals have never eaten their own kind. NEVER!!!

Above answer is false.

A cannibal is an animal that feeds on others of its own species. This is not an animal unnatural characteristics: around 140 different species show cannibalistic tendencies under various conditions. Cannibalism is most common among lower vertebrates and invertebrates often due to a predatory animal mistaking one of its own kind for prey. But it also occurs among birds and mammals, especially when food is scarce.

The more common form of cannibalism is size structured cannibalism, in which large individuals consume smaller ones. Such size structured cannibalism has commonly been observed in the wild for a variety of taxa, including octopus, bats, toads, fish, monitor lizards, red-backed salamanders and several stream salamanders, crocodiles, Spiders, crustaceans, birds (crows, barred owls), mammals, and a vast number of insects, such as dragonflies, diving beetles, back swimmers, water striders, flour beetles, caddisflies and many more.

Animals in captivity have also been known to eat their own kind, however one can reason that parent animals did not want their children raised in a captive setting which is often very stressful for animals.

Answer 3

A cannibal this is what i know them as anyway I'm presuming you're referring to creatures such as the black widow spider (where the female eats the male) or cats (where parents eat their young)

Answer 4

Animals who eat their own kind are referred to as "cannibals."

Answer 5

I know that some snakes kill other snakes and eat them and some same specied fish probably eat each other.... For the snake I think it was a King Snake???? Not so sure though.....

Answer 6

Some species eat their own only if they're really hungry.

Answer 7

Any meat-eating animal will eat the flesh of a dead member of its own species if it is starving, just as humans would. Or some other basic animals would be snakes and fish.

Answer 8

They are called heterotrophs. You can go to Wikipedia to also find the same answer.

Answer 9

mice they eat there babies