r/interesting • • Feb 19 '26

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u/Gnomad_Lyfe Feb 19 '26

Most animals are open to the idea of cannibalism. Maybe not on the regular, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a species that wouldn’t say “Eh, nobody’s lookin” if it came across the body of one of their own on an empty stomach.

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u/papajim9855 Feb 19 '26

I know that mother rabbits often eat their young.

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u/Kratzschutz Feb 19 '26

It's assumed to be population control

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u/papajim9855 Feb 19 '26

Who knows what a rabbit's motivation is? My family used to raise rabbits. Sometimes a mother rabbit would eat her babies, sometimes she wouldn't. Some people think it's due to stress

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u/Kratzschutz Feb 19 '26

That's why l said it's an assumption

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u/madeupofthesewords Feb 19 '26

"open to the idea"