Maize turning hamsters into deranged cannibals

[JerryMungo]

http://news24.com/news24/Green/News/maize-turning-hamsters-into-deranged-cannibals-20170130

Paris - A diet of maize is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported.

 

[Solarion]

Self exterminating rodents. No problem there.

 

[scudsucker]

Very click-baity. Rodents eat their offspring. It's common. As per the research in the article, it is particularly common in times of dietary distress (drought, famine... lack of vitamin B)

It is a very unfortunate result of large scale monoculture, but the researchers were not 'alarmed' by the famicidal hamsters.