cannibalistic

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Young axolotls must be kept separately for months due to cannibalistic behaviour and therefore not yet ready to be re-homed, she said.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

With LuPone’s perversely opportunistic Mrs. Lovett reviewing the prospective cannibalistic menu, his Sweeney perfectly complemented her cockeyed humor with his own savage drollery.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

When a colony’s space was deliberately restricted, according to the voice-over, “asexual, cannibalistic rats preyed on their abandoned young.”

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022

Mormon crickets are cannibalistic and will feast on each other, dead or alive, if not satiated with protein.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2022

At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas