Say What? Animals

This sea slug makes its prey do half the food catching

The wily food-theft strategy has a name: Kleptopredation

Cratena peregrina

STEALING LUNCH This Mediterranean sea slug is a hunter and a thief.

Gabriella Luongo

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Kleptopredation
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A food-gathering strategy of eating an organism and the meal it just ate.

A wily sea slug has a way to get two meals in one: It gobbles up smaller predators that have recently gulped in their own prey.