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What is the term for the process where male lions take over an existing pride and kill the cubs sired by the previous dominant male?

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What is the term for the process where male lions take over an existing pride and kill the cubs sired by the previous dominant male?

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The term for this process is known as infanticide. Infanticide is when a male lion takes over an existing pride and kills the cubs sired by the previous dominant male in order to establish his own genetic lineage within the pride.

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