Cannibalism has also been implicated as a transmission mechanism for abnormal prions, causing the disease known as kuru, once found primarily among women and children of the Fore people in Papua New Guinea.

Cannibalism has been well documented around the world, from Fiji to the Amazon Basin to the Congo to Māori New Zealand.

Cannibalism has been occasionally practiced as a last resort by people suffering from famine, including in modern times.

Cannibalism has been reported in several recent African conflicts, including the Second Congo War, and the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Cannibalism has occurred in various places, among various cultures, and for various reasons.

Cannibalism has two peaks in the life of a chicken ; during the brooding period and at the onset of egg laying.

Cannibalism has been suggested to explain the apparent subsequent disturbance, though it is not widely accepted.

Cannibalism has also been reported.

Cannibalism has been reported in a number of different species.

* The legend of Alexander " Sawney " Bean has been chronicled in various media, including such print sources as Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland by John Nicholson, 1843 ; The Legend of Sawney Bean, by Ronald Holmes, London, 1975 ; The Flesh Eaters, by L. A. Morse, Warner Books, 1979 ; and Cannibalism: The Last Taboo, by Brian Marriner London ; Arrow, 1992

He has also written a series of nostalgic books looking back at the decades from the 1930s-1950s, with a companion duo of quiz books, a book about Victorian magazines, " Penny Dreadfuls and other Victorian Horrors ", and one on cannibalism, " Man Eats Man: The Story of Cannibalism ", together with a small number of stories or features for Fleetway / IPC's war comics output between 1979 – 1983, before retiring during the 1980s.

Cannibalism was practiced as recently as 2000 years ago in Great Britain.

Cannibalism was practiced, too: the bodies of enemies slain in battle, or in sacrifice, were piled up and cooked for festivals, such as the installation of chiefs or the launching of a great canoe.

Cannibalism was already a regular practice in Māori wars.

Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.

Cannibalism, Brazil.

Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

Cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans in many parts of the world, continuing into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures, and to the present day in parts of tropical Africa.

Cannibalism is rare and is not illegal in most countries.

Cannibalism features in the folklore and legends of many cultures and is most often attributed to evil characters or as extreme retribution for some wrong.

Cannibalism in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic may have occurred because of food shortages.

Cannibalism is mentioned many times in early history and literature.

Cannibalism during the Russian famine of 1921.

Cannibalism was proven to have occurred in China during the Great Leap Forward, when rural China was hit hard by drought and famine.

* All about Cannibalism: The Ancient Taboo in Modern Times ( Cannibalism Psychology ) at CrimeLibrary. com

Cannibalism of eggs is also considered to be a common occurrence.

Cannibalism, however, leads to a much lower number of eggs in hellbender nests than would be predicted by ovarian counts.

Cannibalism was widespread throughout New Caledonia.

Cannibalism in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic may have occurred because of food shortages.

* The New Cannibalism is a phrase coined by anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes in 1998 for an article written for The New Internationalist.

In 1993, erotic fiction author Zheng Yi wrote the controversial book Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China, alleging “ systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and ' class struggle '” among the Zhuang people in Wuxuan County, Guangxi, during that period.

recently only Keith Wheeler's novel, Peaceable Lane, has openly faced the problem.

Until recently, art has withstood the pressure of chaotic things.

Kluckhohn recently has summarized evidence regarding changes in values during a period of years, primarily 1935-1955, but extending much farther back in some instances.

Communist guerrillas recently have been reported increasing their activities and the great flood of the Mekong River has interposed a new crisis.

The Transit Authority has recently placed in operation `` hold '' lights at BMT Thirty-ninth and Fifty-ninth Street stations in Brooklyn.

The state has recently undertaken liability insurance for drivers of state cars.

The author has recently studied the field of medical electronics and has been convinced that, in this area alone, the application of electronic equipment has enormous possibilities.

It has recently become practical to use the radio emission of the moon and planets as a new source of information about these bodies and their atmospheres.

A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.

Oliver has recently used the second-level approach with the largest snakes, and has come to these conclusions: the anaconda reaches a length of at least 37 feet, the reticulate python 33, the African rock python 25, the amethystine python at least 22, the Indian python 20, and the boa constrictor 18-1/2.

In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.

And contrary to what has been said recently, we did not wait for `` outside pressures '' and `` world opinion '' to bring down that Communist government ; ;

Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here.

Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: `` The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.

Mr. Kennan, who has recently abandoned authorship for a new round of diplomacy as the recently appointed American ambassador to Yugoslavia, is not the only man who finds it easier to portray the past than to prescribe for the future.

It was pleasant last night, therefore, to hear him do something else: a concerto he has recently recorded, `` The Emperor ''.

Herr Wangenheim has only recently become the city's music director, and is a young man with a clear flair for the podium.

But what has been happening recently might be described as creeping mannerism.

More recently, Alasdair MacIntyre has attempted to reform what he calls the Aristotelian tradition in a way that is anti-elitist and capable of disputing the claims of both liberals and Nietzscheans.

The aardvark has been known to sleep in a recently excavated ant nest, which also serves as protection from its predators.

More recently, it has extended those efforts to controls on conflict diamonds, the primary source of revenue for UNITA.