Infanticide in Mammals

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Across
  1. 3. Infanticide typically ___ the mother's fitness
  2. 4. Infanticides in Chimpanzees and orcas are perpetrated by ___ sexes
  3. 8. Dominant cub/twin monopolizes access to maternal milk
  4. 9. Infanticide that mostly involved younger rather than older mothers in spotted hyenas
  5. 11. Social carnivores that live in groups known as clans
Down
  1. 1. “an infant is a perfect ___ and infanticide removes this effect”
  2. 2. Killing of an offspring by a member of the same species
  3. 5. The vast majority of infanticides in spotted hyenas are committed by adult ___
  4. 6. Groups spotted hyenas live in are called
  5. 7. ___ mating increases the potential number of fathers that will protect their offspring
  6. 10. Primarily observed in taxa with high ___ ratios