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27: Zoologist Ash Campbell, Kleptoparasitism, and Australia's Best Animal
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The Nudibranch Using Polyps as a Super Organism
Nudibranch eats polyps that have recently consumed zooplankton. This behavior has been labeled kleptopradation because the nudibranch essentially steals the nutrients of the zooplankington by eating the polyp before it's had time to digest. But at the same time, I can totally see how this could evolve into kleaptoparasitism, you know, given millions of years, right? Because this is sort of like the start of it, is it starts as predation and then could turn into, yeah.
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