Why do some animals eat their new born babies?

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Literally woke up at 3 am in my country to ask this question pls help

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Anonymous 0 Comments

If the animal feels like their litter is not going to survive, it’s better to eat the babies and regain some of that nutrition to be in a better position next time than to let the babies starve/die/be eaten and lose everything.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Some animals instincts to eat are strong, and they don’t have nurture instincts, and aren’t smart enough to understand parenthood. So wiggling animals are food, and enough survive to continue the species so a different mechanism doesn’t evolve