{"id":26723,"date":"2024-09-20T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26723"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:45:01","slug":"kleptoparasitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kleptoparasitism\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Kleptoparasitism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kleptoparasitism:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The term kleptoparasitism was introduced to describe the <strong>theft of food previously collected or processed by some other individual.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a form of feeding where <strong>one animal takes prey from another<\/strong> that has caught, killed, or otherwise prepared, including stored food (as in the case of cuckoo bees, which lay their eggs on the pollen masses made by other bees).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Kleptoparasitism is also the <strong>&#8216;stealing&#8217; nest material or other inanimate objects from one animal by another.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kleptoparasitism occurs in several groups of animals, such as birds, insects, and mammals, and is considered a form of social parasitism.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>kleptoparasite benefitsfrom<\/strong> the <strong>efforts of other animals to obtain food<\/strong>, without expending energy in searching for and capturing these resources for itself.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Kleptoparasitism <strong>may be intraspecific<\/strong>, where the parasite is the same species as the victim, <strong>or interspecific<\/strong>, where the parasite is a different species.\n<ul>\n<li>In the latter case, the <strong>parasites are commonly close relatives of<\/strong> the <strong>organisms they parasitize (&#8220;Emery&#8217;s Rule&#8221;).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Parasitism?<\/h3>\n<p>Parasitism is the relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/547761\/seabird-food-theft-may-spread-deadly-avian-flu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seabird \u2018Food Theft\u2019 May Spread Deadly Avian Flu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kleptoparasitism is a form of feeding where one animal takes prey from another that has caught, killed, or otherwise prepared, including stored food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}