Cannibals

• A cannibal is an animal that feeds on others of its own species. This is not an animal unnatural characteristics: around 140 different species show cannibalistic

• tendencies under various conditions. Cannibalism is most common among lower vertebrates and invertebrates often due to a predatory animal mistaking one of its own kind for prey.

• But it also occurs among birds and mammals, especially when food is scarce.

• The more common form of cannibalism is size structured cannibalism, in which large individuals consume smaller ones. Such size structured cannibalism has commonly been observed in the wild for a variety of taxa, including:-

 

 

                                            1.Barred owls

                                           2. crocodiles

                                                3.Crow

                                           4. Crustaceans

                                                5.Fish

                                                6.Bats

                                         7. Monitor Lizards

                                8. Red-Backed Salamanders

                               9. Several Stream Salamanders

                                            10.Toads

 

• And  some the of insects:- 

 

                                    back swimmers

                                       diving beetles

                                          dragonflies

                                        flour beetles

                                        water strider