(1) The parallels in ethnological studies show that anthropophagy occurs only in farming societies, as religious rites; up to now, there is no evidence for this type of rites among the hunting and collecting groups.
(2) This anthropophagy was maintained during laboratory colonization.
(3) Results indicated the predominantly zoophagic nature of species A and B with a relatively higher degree of anthropophagy for species A.
Cannibalism
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studied were the clinical symptoms manifested by both the pigs exhibiting cannibalism and by those that suffered, following up a number of biochemical indices.
(2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(3) Mortality from cannibalism was absent among pullets kept in experimental floor pens.
(4) Comparative data from 6 organisations that raised 87 880 hamsters in the calendar year 1971 indicated that 97-5% of total preweaning mortality was due to cannibalism.
(5) Finally, the effect of social stress on symptoms such as cannibalism, gastric ulcers and avian hysteria is discussed.
(6) Cannibalism of carcasses is common in the black bear and may play a major role in the transmission of Trichinella.
(7) Causes of mortality were species-specific and included hatchling abnormalities, escapes, aggression, cannibalism, disease, senescence and laboratory accidents.
(8) After all, “how can you expect a little child whose mother is an angel and whose father is a Cannibal King and who has spent her life sailing the seas to tell the truth always?” Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking.
(9) Another, alluding to the infamous video in which a rebel fighter appears to take a bite from the heart of a dead soldier, showed Putin and Assad stirring a pot of blood, and Putin saying: "Let's say … FSA are cannibals."
(10) Cannibalism may be divided into vent pecking and cannibalism affecting other parts of the body, the former is independent of feather pecking and the latter, though usually preceded by feather pecking, is only indirectly associated with it.
(11) Larvae from "F2 recovered" ap beetles cannibalized fewer eggs than either original strain or the heterozygotes, further implicating the possible pleiotropic effect of the ap mutation on egg cannibalism.
(12) Scientists already knew cannibalism had been practised in the cavern, but were unclear if it was a ritual process or involved the deliberate killing of humans.
(13) Under forced cannibalism and predation fourth instar larvae could not successfully pupate but the duration was prolonged.
(14) For example, females often modify their litter size by cannibalism on days 1-7 postpartum, and the number of young eaten is a function of the total supply of metabolic energy as determined by both food supply and body fat content.
(15) Noradrenaline depletion of the olfactory bulbs induces cannibalism at parturition in primiparous mice, without producing anosmia or impairment of maternal behaviour.
(16) Anti-semitism is rampant in much of the 'hypocritical' Middle East, the editor wrote, with Jewish rabbis depicted on prime-time Syrian TV as cannibals.
(17) Tissue samples from partly devoured carcasses contained T. spiralis larvae, implicating cannibalism as a major vehicle for the spread of T. spiralis in the herd.
(18) In addition, these mice attacked, cannibalized, and buried carcasses.
(19) Perhaps the worst affected region was the southern province of Guangxi where there were reports of mass killings and even cannibalism.
(20) South Sudan civil war inquiry details torture and forced cannibalism Read more Malakal, which sits a few kilometres away on the banks of the White Nile, was once South Sudan ’s second city, home to more than 150,000 people, a cross-border trading hub and an international airport.