Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)A feeding strategy where a predator hunts other predators who have recently fed on prey, thus eating both the prey animal and the prey's own undigested prey/food. The predator chooses prey who have fed recently, and ignores those who have not fed recently.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From klepto- + predation.

From klepto- + predation.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kleptopredation — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto