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 masses made by other bees). The term is also used t...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoparasitism
Stealing (e.g., food, nesting material.) Purple Martins are notorious for this behavior. Also see Piracy.
Found on
http://www.sialis.org/glossary.htm
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 female of one species regularly usurps the prey of th...
Found on
http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1968/
A parasitic interaction in which one bird steals prey or food from the individual who originally obtained it.
Found on
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/bird-academys-a-to-z-glossary-of-bird-ter
No exact match found.
