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27: Zoologist Ash Campbell, Kleptoparasitism, and Australia's Best Animal
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Kleptoparasitism
Kleptoparasitism is used to describe instances where one organism has expended energy to acquire a resource, only to have it stolen by another before it can completely benefit from that resource. Dr Erica Eingar published a literature review on this behavior back in 2008 and so that review states that stealing has to follow the rules of parasitism which means that stealing must benefit the thief and have a negative effect on the host. If it benefits the thief and the host is unaffected it's considered kleptobiosis. Ash: Do you think that a girl stealing a chip isn't kleptoporasitism because having a single chip stolen doesn't have a major negative effect on
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