Filial Cannibalism

Eating your offspring may sound unthinkable, but animals from fish to birds are known to do it. Scientists have been unsure why such a behavior would have evolved, but a new study sheds light on the factors that may drive some parents to eat their young. Zoologists have observed filial cannibalism, the act of eating one's offspring, in many different types of animals, including bank voles, house finches, wolf spiders and many fish species. Paradoxically, all of the species also care for the young that they don't eat. Scientists were hard-pressed to explain how such seemingly opposing behaviors could co-exist in the same species and reasoned that there must be some evolutionary benefit to the practice. More

Kronos eating his son

Father Poem

The Book of the Dead
a poem by Biff Russ

In Egypt, they wrote
On anything –

on the inside of coffins, of eyelids,
on the inside

of their own skin.
They sent their dead on a river of words,

to an afterlife
where everyone dwelled –

the innocent,
and the guilty,

and those who were both.
They took their bodies with them,

And their shadows followed them like children.
Father, you were a bitter man,

But there was grace
In the way you lapsed

Like memory at the end –
Like something

Forgotten,
Something

Forgiven. This is my solace –
It is not my body

For which we are released.
It is the soul

Which is lifted from us like a burden.

I Lived on The Moon

Yeah, I lived on the moon with three funny multi-tailed monkeys, flying snakes and fireflies. It's all F's. Open your imagination, child, and you see the entrance to this private paradise. While I'm gone, you ride on a bulb that shoot up to the moon with roots for spindly legs. Fly by yourself then on a manta ray. The evil gnomes will not get you and they die as you go on with your dreams.
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What Ada Did During Her Summer Vacation

So she won't have problems during her opening essay, maybe I remind her what she did. She campaigned for Angara and earned P600 for it. She went with her new friends Yanna and Baboo to the market on the last day of campaigning. Unfortunately, she ate something bad in Rose Bowl and so was able to go to Sagada. She had singing lessons and then painted with Norman Chow. She also had pop singing lessons and made a homage to Dreamgirls. She watched more than 20 movies including Borat which she regretted. She played Sims, Sim4 and Counterstrike. She went ukaying a lot. She maintained her leadership role among the young girls in the neighborhood. She learned to clean the yard and end up dirtying the house. She stayed late. She read. She cried but mostly laughed. It was a fun summer. She gained an inch in height. In all the hoopla for empowerment and gender politics, Ada has regained her innocence.