The first known case among nonhuman vertebrates of so-called desperado aggression–relentless attacks against an overwhelming force–may come from the underling chick in nests of brown boobies.
SIBLICIDE. The older, larger chick pushes its younger sibling toward the edge of a brown booby nest. Later, the older chick expelled the younger one, and the parents didn’t rescue it.
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