Dolphins Kill Infants
- Thread starter cdiver2
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
smellzlikefish
Contributor
As the article said, this practice is really common in mammal species. This seems to be most common when a new male starts courting a female, he will often kill any young of hers that is not his own. Since most child abuse is from the step dad, many ethologists believe step child abuse may be a watered down remnant of what would be infanticide in other species.
- Messages
- 17,700
- Reaction score
- 9,963
- Location
- Somewhere between here and there
- # of dives
- 2500 - 4999
Re: "...Since most child abuse is from the step dad,..." I have been a Child Care and Protection social worker investigating reports of child abuse and have worked with children in one capacity or another for almost 16 years. Based on my experience, I have not found this to be the case. Just wondering where you got this info from....Cheers
lock_washer
Contributor
- Messages
- 349
- Reaction score
- 7
Well, will throw this in...off Scotland, dolphins have been seen killing porpoises. Its been caught on video, so I am sure you can view this somewhere. It is theorized that dolphins will also kill a competing species for food too.
Lock Washer
Lock Washer
smellzlikefish
Contributor
buddhasummer-My ethology textbook had a graph that showed most abuse is from a step parent. This makes sense from an evolutionary point of view (please don't take this to mean that I am defending child abuse). Genetic parents would lose reproductive fitness by abusing their children, while step parents would have less at stake.
The Great Kazoo
Contributor
- Messages
- 146
- Reaction score
- 1
- # of dives
I did not think for a second he was talking about humans. Dolphins... do this. It is to continue their bloodline. With the pup dead, the mother will go into "heat" again to spawn the new hosts offspring. I looked at the date on this and it is new. I have seen items on this last year that made the statement I posted above. I have also seen it on Animal Planet as well as Discovery.
Similar threads
