A
human or animal that eats its own kind.
These people
don't care who you are, they
will just eat you either alive or cooked. They may put spices on you and then cook you alive.
They appear in post-apocalyptic books or if so, our earth if it becomes one.
In famines, starving peoples' only source of food is eating others.
Books with cannibals in them, well so far I know that: The Road, is one of them.
The movie: The Road, tells about the book, has a wide perspective of cannibalism being a fear among survivors in a post-apocalyptic world.
Any animal or
human or bug(e.g. The
female praying mantis eats the head of her mate after mating) that devours the flesh of its or her or his kind are considered a cannibal.
A cannibal
may approach to you with their jaws watering and teeth stained with blood. They
may bite you to death or kill you, you must fight back, kill them or you
will be food. Even if you run away, they may outrun you. Unless you get lucky.