ranicide

alternative ranacide

1. uncountableThe killing of a frog.

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

   1955 July 22, Alex Preston, “Frog Legs at $17.75 a Pair: Is Unlicensed Ranicide Illegal?”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, number 172, Fort Worth, Tex., page 6, column 4

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   Although the bereaved family—the brothers and sisters, for anything we know to the contrary, of the ill-fated flirt who perished so suddenly in the bloom of his youth and in his opera hat—had pleaded with tears for a verdict of ranicide, and a big deodand on the ox, no honest frog could have forgotten for a moment the plain demands of duty.

   1872, S[amuel] Reynolds Hole, “Mr Chiswick on Bedding-Out”, in The Six of Spades: A Book about the Garden and the Gardener, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, pages 147–148

   The experimental models used included isolation and shock-induced conspecific aggression, muricide (mouse-killing), and ranicide (frog-killing).[…]In a series of experiments (8), testosterone was found to be neither an initiator nor a promoter of ranicide behavior in the adult male rat nor an inhibitor of ranicide in established killers.[…]Similarly, exogenous testosterone given to animals demonstrating ranicide on the first testing session did not increase the rate at which these animals killed frogs compared to subjects that did not receive testosterone.

   1974 October, Bruce K. Bernard, Ronald M. Paolino, “Biogenic Amines and Androgens in the Study of Aggressive Behavior”, in Psychopharmacology Bulletin, volume 10, number 4, pages 59–60, column 1

   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.

   1980, M. Girgis, L.G. Kiloh, editors, Limbic Epilepsy and the Dyscontrol Syndrome: […] , Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, →ISBN, page 113

   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.

   1983, Edward C. Simmel, Martin E. Hahn, James K. Walters, editors, Aggressive Behavior: Genetic and Neural Approaches, →ISBN, page 168

   Ranicide in rats was found to be reduced by injection of noradrenaline into the hypothalamus, as was muricide behaviour (Bandler, 1970).[…]Other sites in the unspecified ‘ventral midbrain’ were also found (Bandler, 1971) at which noradrenaline administration in crystalline form served to facilitate predatory aggression (ranicide and muricide).

   1984, Stephen T. Mason, “Catecholamines and vegetative behaviour”, in Catecholamines and Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Aggression”, page 333