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To: matt fahy who wrote (9098)9/2/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: Elmer Flugum  Read Replies (1) of 12559
 
Slow day...so here goes:

Some animals use cannibalism to endow themselves with the traits of their
prey. Certain moth larvae, for example, depend on bitter chemicals in the
leaves they eat to protect them against would-be predators. Franz Bogner
and Thomas Eisner at Cornell University have shown that larvae lacking
access to these leaves will eat other members of the same species that
have eaten the leaves, cannibalizing the protection they need.

That strategy has been copied in ritualized form by some human
populations, such as the "Fore" tribesmen of New Guinea, who proudly ate
parts of their honored elders. And, of course, cannibalism is sometimes a
psychopathology -- as was apparently the case with Jeffrey Dahmer, the
midwestern murderer who had an unusually consuming interest in his
victims.
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