Ranicide

Quick meaning: Ranicide is a noun meaning The killing of a frog.

Meaning

The killing of a frog.

Example Sentences

At any rate, Warden Fred Hottle told Riddell—not in precisely these words—that unlicensed ranicide is illegal in Virginia.

This involves the study of attacks that one species directs to a member of another species. Examples of this type include mouse killing (muricide) or frog killing (ranicide) by the rat and attacks on locusts by mice.

The review covers both offensive and defensive aggression in a variety of animal models including muricide (mouse killing), ranicide (frog killing), isolation-induced, pain-induced, brain stimulation-induced, and intermale aggression.

McIntyre (personal communication) found no change in the mouse-killing patterns of rats post-kindling, and a more extensive study by Bawden and Racine found no changes in muricide, ranicide or intraspecific aggression of their post-kindled rats.

Word Forms

• ranacide

Related Words

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