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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 07:02 AM
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59. How about Social Parasites?


Social parasites take advantage of interactions between members of social organisms such as ants or termites. In kleptoparasitism, parasites appropriate food gathered by the host. An example is the brood parasitism practiced by many species of cuckoo. Many cuckoos use other bird species as "babysitters", depositing their eggs in the nest of the host species, which raise the cuckoo young as one of their own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite

Kleptoparasitism makes the nut too, but this type ain't cuckoo, they are deadly serious.
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