Strange reasons these animals eat their own kind
How they do it is just as fascinating as it is disturbing
LIFESTYLE Nature
When humans started saying it's a dog-eat-dog world, we probably weren't even aware of how startlingly true that really is... Animal cannibalism is disturbingly common in nature, but the reasons and techniques behind it can be quite fascinating—if you can get over the gruesome cannibalism part. Sadly, this behavior is now becoming increasingly more common due to certain environmental conditions, and it could even be altering evolutionary adaptation as we speak.
Intrigued? Click through to learn more about the species prone to eating their own kind, and find out why they do it.