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Gammerstang commented on the word kleptopredation
"People may have heard of kleptoparasitic behaviour - when one species takes food killed by another, like a pack of hyenas driving a lion from its kill for example. This is something else, where the predator consumes both its own prey and that which the prey has captured."
The behaviour is a combination of kleptoparasitic competition and direct predation.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-marine-scientists-kleptopredationa-prey.html#jCp
November 1, 2017