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Killing and consuming one's own kind or intraspecific predation is called :

A

Parasitism

B

Cannibalism

C

Autophagy

D

None of these

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B
Cannibalism (from Canibales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formely well known for their practice of cannibalism) is the act or practice of humans easting the flesh of other human beings. The expression "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to mean one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of a species as food.
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