"They initially overproduce offspring and then later remove some of the inferior offspring," Klug explained.
General competition within a species for resources may also limit parents to the amount of energy and time they can spend raising their young, so they force their eggs to grow up fast or get eaten. "
I'm not a big supporter of cannibalism, but there were days when my kids were younger that this might have seemed like a reasonable option. Even now I sometimes wonder if I should marinate my son before I pit roast his carcass. ;)
Once again, the animals show us that we only have to threaten to eat our children if they don't mature and move out on their own in a reasonable time. The animals, it would seem, don't suffer from having 40 something year old children living in the basement.
Thoughts?
