Why Some Male Mammals Kill Infants of their Own Species (1 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Why Some Male Mammals Kill Infants of their Own Species (1 of 11)

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This image shows a Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) fight. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 14 Nov. 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dieter Lukas and Elise Huchard at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, was titled, "The evolution of infanticide by males in mammalian societies."

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[Credit: Elise Huchard]

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