Apr 16, 2017 12:16 AM
(Apr 15, 2017 03:56 PM)C C Wrote: The black lace-weaver spider allows its newly hatched spiders to devour her.
Some animals engage in autocannibalism. A sea squirt assimilates its own "brain" when no longer needed. One rat-snake was documented as swallowing two-thirds of its body. Snakes can methodically break-down nutrients from their heart muscle and other tissues when starving, to an extent and with results greater than anything remotely resembling such in famished human bodies.
Placentophagy..... I've heard a few murmurs about humans recently getting in on the feast. Is it becoming trendy or should humans stay away from indulging? My wife was watching a video of a giraffe giving birth on her laptop this morning, I happened to peek in just after the afterbirth slid out and saw mom chomping away and it reminded me of this thread.