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Avicide. When is a new word appropriate?

from [Martin Butterfield] [Permanent Link][Original]
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Subject: Avicide. When is a new word appropriate?
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:14:05 +1100
Fratricide - brother killing - would seem to be adopting a term usually referring to evilness by humans.  So why not adopt the term for humans killing their children "infanticide"?

Martin


On 31 December 2014 at 06:56, n/a n/a <> wrote:
The male Musk Duck (Biziura lobata) is said to predate its own young. What does HANZAB say? What other nestlings / immatures is it known to predate? Fratricide has been used to describe Kookaburra nestlings killing siblings, so when an adult bird kills and eats its own young is that avicide? How common is avicide, e.g. among Australian Magpies and Black Swans? What word best descibes this situation? What other waterbirds may predate the young of all members of the Rallidae?
Bill Graham

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