Word of the Day: Kleptoparasitism

GIMME YOUR LUNCH MONEY

Browsing through the animal behaviour literature today, I stumbled upon a review of kleptoparasitism in birds - in essence, stealing other people’s food. And while you might think that it’s the big tough bully birds who steal food, the authors actually found that stealers tended to have larger brains, though not larger bodies, than their mugging victims. Fun times.