Animals more likely to eat their young are those with faster reproductive cycles. “Species that have large broods might be ...

The animal kingdom can be rather unforgiving, but even the cutest animals have strange reasons to do some pretty gruesome things, including eating their young.

It’s odd, given American meat eaters’ sporadic bursts of conscience, that as a nation we are so O.K. with infanticide. Veal cutlets, suckling pigs, spring lambs, game hens — with or without the ...