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- hyenas and lions. Other species opportunistically indulge in kleptoparasitism. Kleptoparasitism is a feeding strategy where one animal deliberately steals...
- (January 2013). "The ecological economics of kleptoparasitism: pay-offs from self-foraging versus kleptoparasitism". Animal Behaviour. 82 (1): 245–255. doi:10...
- Halictidae is the second-largest family of bees (clade Anthophila) with nearly 4,500 species. They are commonly called sweat bees (especially the smaller...
- strategies are hyperparasitism, social parasitism, brood parasitism, kleptoparasitism, ****ual parasitism, and adelphoparasitism. Hyperparasites feed on another...
- Canada, Alaska, and Siberia and winters across the southern hemisphere. Kleptoparasitism is a major source of food for this species during migration and winter...
- been interpreted as arising due to pressure from this aerial piracy. Kleptoparasitism is not thought to play a significant part of the diet of any species...
- occasionally hunts live prey such as hares and bats. They may also indulge in kleptoparasitism and attempt to steal prey from other birds. Brahminy kites have even...
- frigatebirds, gulls, and skuas, engage in kleptoparasitism, stealing food items from other birds. Kleptoparasitism is thought to be a supplement to food obtained...
- mutualistic, but later studies found the birds to be parasitic. Direct kleptoparasitism (birds stealing food from the ants' grasp) is rare and has been noted...
- opportunistic of all Aquilinae, and often scavenges on carrion or engages in kleptoparasitism towards other carnivorous animals but is also a bold and active predator...