44. Female Infanticide in India

Female Infanticide in 19th-Century India: A Genocide?

In post-colonial India the female foeticide, a practice evolved from customary female infanticide of pre-colonial and colonial period, committed though in separate incidents, has made it almost a unified wave of mass murder. It does not fulfil the widely accepted existing definition of genocide but the high rate of abortion of legitimate girl-foetus by Indian parents makes their crime a kind of...

Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees

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[Structural analysis of the female infanticide].

Is female infanticide spreading to Karnataka?

An attempt to pass a FG 8 infant feeding tube into the stomach failed which made as suspect some esophageal obstruction. An X-ray of the neck and chest showed a dense foreign body in the esophagus (Fig. 1). The baby was immediately shifted to operation theatre and the esophageal foreign body was removed. The foreign body was a pebble with an irregular surface measuring about 2.5 cm in Fig.1. X-...

Infanticide in the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus): occurrence and the effect of familiarity on female infanticide