Look up: Kleptoparasitism


  1. kleptoparasitism
    cleptoparasitism, kleptoparasitism 1. A form of parasitism found in some social organisms in which a member of one species steals the prey or food stores of another species to feed its own progeny. 2. A relationship between two parasitic species; such as, with some parasitoid wasps, whereby the fem...
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  2. Kleptoparasitism
    Kleptoparasitism or cleptoparasitism (literally, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food from another that has caught, collected, or otherwise prepared the food, including stored food (as in the case of cuckoo bees, which lay their eggs on the pollen m...
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