Kleptopredation
\klep-toe-preh-day-shun \ n.
A food-gathering strategy of eating an organism and the meal it just ate.
A wily sea slug has a way to get two meals in one: It gobbles up smaller predators that have recently gulped in their own prey.
“Kleptopredation” is the term Trevor Willis of the University of Portsmouth in England and his colleagues propose for this kind of food theft by well-timed predation.
Researchers knew that the small Mediterranean nudibranch Cratena peregrina, with a colorful…
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