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This lasts for almost two months, but afterwards they become infanticidal once more.

This infanticidal period is limited to the window just after the group is taken over.

You know that prospects are looking good when the Kentucky senator's rhetoric takes a turn for the infanticidal.

Females are also known to display infanticidal behavior.

This may cause the newly migrated male bears to become infanticidal towards the late males' cubs.

Infanticidal raids from neighboring groups also occurred.

In other cases, mothers turn infanticidal because they are born optimists, ever tuned to the sunny expectation that good times lie ahead.

Unlike other African felids, no infanticidal behavior has been observed in the cheetah.

"Early infanticidal childrearing"

A minority of academics subscribe to an alternate school of thought, considering the practice as "early infanticidal childrearing".

The infanticidal clinging of the symbiotic mother prevents individuation so that innovation and more complex political organization are inhibited.

Most infanticidal langurs are males that have recently immigrated to a group and driven out the prior male.

Female choice is subverted, as females are put under pressure to ovulate and are forced to breed with the infanticidal males.

(Pinker has denied the accusation, arguing that he is trying to understand infanticidal behavior, not condoning it.)

Many mistakenly assumed that she implied existence of an 'infanticidal gene' that could be conserved across primates.

Infanticidal vixens infrequently adopt and help to raise the young of neighboring vixens after eating their own.

Females form strong relationships with males to gain mating opportunities and protection from predators and infanticidal outside males.

Marauding behavior is evidently adaptive, as infanticidal females had more and healthier young than others, and were heavier themselves as well.

This is seen in mountain gorillas, red howlers, and grey langur females, where males are often infanticidal.

Females band together to defend their infants from infanticidal males, but they rarely succeed in saving their infants.

And that is privileged academics sitting in their comfortable offices thinking up Twinkie defense theories to exculpate infanticidal mothers as part of an ideological cause.

In spite of the fact that it is illegal, in Benin, West Africa, parents secretly continue with infanticidal customs.

Ape or monkey females whose babies are threatened have directly opposed interests, often forming coalitions to defend themselves and their offspring against infanticidal males.

Though infanticide in the wild has not yet been reported, the speckled ground squirrel has been infanticidal in captivity.

The alpha male helps defend females from subordinate males within the group as well as from infanticidal males from other groups.