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Old 06-08-2011, 12:52 PM   #295 (permalink)
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i'm not sure if they already have a term for animals but i know that cannibalism is when a human being eats another human being. but i'm sure its the same thing as when an animal eats another animal lets say a lion eating a pig, they're both animals, so in a sense it's cannibalism. english is not my first language so if you already invented a term for animals eating animals, then let me know. as for now, i'm gonna use the term cannibalism which is appropriate for my current state of knowledge.
For an act of meat consumption to be cannibalism as per usual definitions, both the eater and the eaten has to be of the same species of animal. Human is one species, lion is a another species and pig yet another. A pig eating a pig would be cannibalism. A human eating a human would be cannibalism. A lion eating a lion would be cannibalism.

A lion eating a pig is not necessarily a cannibal, just a lion eating a pig
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