1.   Farmers had killed her young.

2.   It decimates herds, killing the young and causes older animals to lose weight, produce less milk or abort spontaneously.

3.   Like polar bears or lions, they may have killed their young to get rid of any future competition for food or mates.

4.   Shieldcastle concedes that something other than chemicals could be killing the young of Lake Erie eagles.

5.   They are known to kill their young for no other reason than to keep down the competition.

6.   After learning of the Scotland study, researchers at the Virginia Marine Science Museum in the United States found similar evidence of adult dolphins killing their young.