please help me to find a professional expression

[waterluo]

hello
the question is :
in animal world ,some mother animal would kill the young even eat them after bearing ,when the mother are scared or food lacked ,anyway when it was in bad situation
then I want to find a professional expression to describe this behavior ,but I can't ,please help me
thank you

[bmass]

Are you looking for a more professional way to word and structure that sentace? Or are you asking for a word to define the process described?

[waterluo]

yes ,i'm looking for a word to define the process as described ,a professional word ,who can help me ?

[Philly]

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I'd suggest using infanticide (noun).
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Infanticide occurs throughout the animal kingdom.
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