Topic

Kleptoparasitism

Feeding strategy in which one animal takes food that another animal has caught, collected or already swallowed. It is well documented in birds and insects and rarely recorded in marine mammals.

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A Great Barrier Reef dolphin chased trevally into regurgitating in 11 of 20 recorded encounters

University of the Sunshine Coast researchers call it the first detailed description of kleptoparasitism in any cetacean. The evidence is one identifiable animal across 20 logged encounters in four years, and no one has measured the energy saving.

Publishers:discovermagazine.comphys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+22
Incentives55
Confidence68