Article read: study frames filial cannibalism as parental care
A host reads aloud an Inverse article, 'Cannibalism Researchers Explain the Perplexing Benefit of Eating Your Kid,' on a Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution study by Hope Kluge (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) modeling filial cannibalism in communal egg-laying species. The hosts riff on which animals eat their young (bears, dogs, mice, gerbils), the 'thinning of the nest' hypothesis, and the study's claim that cannibalistic parents' offspring outcompete the general population — punctured by the joke about Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are ('We'll eat you up, we love you so').
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