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The practice of eating one's own species, most often discussed in the context of humans eating other humans.
means The eating of one's own species — most notoriously, humans eating other humans.
from Traces back to 'Caníba,' a variant of 'Caribe,' the name Columbus and Spanish explorers used for the Carib people of the Caribbean, whom they believed (often on flimsy or self-serving evidence) to practice man-eating. The word 'cannibal' entered European languages as a direct stand-in for 'man-eater,' and from it English built 'cannibalism' to name the act itself — a word literally born from colonial rumor and the othering of an entire people, later generalized to describe the behavior wherever it occurs, animal kingdom included.
- nutritional catch
- eating your own species spreads prion diseases fastest
- famous case
- 1972 Andes crash survivors ate deceased teammates to live
- animal angle
- female spiders often eat mates mid or post sex
- legal gap
- eating a willing dead person isn't illegal in many countries