"commit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She tries to support the child on her own, and hears of another young mother who committed infanticide.
- Adult females with poor nest hollows often commit infanticide on the male, if they produce both a male and a female chick.
- Some enslaved mothers appear to have committed infanticide, rather than bringing their children into what was clearly a hellish environment.
- While in the grip of severe depression, some women may even commit infanticide or suicide.
- Gerbils, on the other hand, no longer commit infanticide once they have paired with a female, but actively kill and eat other offspring when young.
- In carnivores, it is not uncommon for an unrelated male to commit infanticide to make females sexually receptive.
- To avoid the king's wrath, they smear dog's blood onto a sleeping Rhiannon, claiming that she had committed infanticide and cannibalism through eating her child.
- Not all rodent species commit infanticide, and in fact some species are remarkable for their lack of this behaviour.
- Moreover, males have been known to commit infanticide when the young clearly were not their own.
- In some mammal species, mostly nonhuman primates, it is common for males to commit infanticide to mate with females.
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