Sea eagle vs fur seal

Just split second before the photo, the white bellied sea eagle stole the fish out of the jaws of the fur seal. The photo depicts the eagle as a #kleptoparasite, stealing food that another animal has already caught.

Photograph: Lily Barnett

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The joint #evolution of #animal #movement and #competition #strategies

#AmericanNaturalist

"Spatially explicit #forager - #kleptoparasite model where consumers can either forage or steal resource items from conspecifics (#kleptoparasitism). 3 scenarios: (1) foragers without kleptoparasites, (2) consumers specializing as foragers or as kleptoparasites and (3) consumers that can switch between foraging and kleptoparasitism depending on local conditions"

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/725394