6 Animals That Have Evolved to Steal

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Animals have evolved a variety of ways to survive—including outright theft. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Dewdrop Spiders http://science.sciencemag.org/content/205/4411/1149 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3c2f/fd8ca9f5e44df19d89b6fd048dd68af794e9.pdf http://araneae.thu.edu.tw/lib/publications_lib_pdf/1998_Tso_IM__Severinghaus_LL.pdf https://bioone.org/journals/invertebrate-systematics/volume-28/issue-4/IS14010/Evolution-of-host-use-group-living-and-foraging-behaviours-in/10.1071/IS14010.short https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-zoology/article/statedependent-prey-t ype-preferences-of-a-kleptoparasitic-spider-argyrodes-flavescens-araneae-theridiidae/605D4F2B7784D03C654BA2FF803FB474 Fork-tailed Drongos https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2010.1932 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/513 Cuckoo bees http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2902/N3349.pdf?sequence=1 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/5058/N3029.pdf?sequence=1 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2926/v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N3309.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aesa/say031/5115643 https://entomologytoday.org/2018/10/29/cuckoo-bumble-bees-cheating-ways/ Mouth-Diving Snails: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238451301_Sneaky_snails_and_wasted_worms_Kleptoparasitism_by_Trichotropis_cancellata_Mollusca_Gastropoda_on_Serpula_columbiana_Annelida_Polychaeta https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-003-1467-1 http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/download?type=document;docid=596852 Plant-robbing Flies https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153900 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2087352-carnivorous-plant-conned-out-of-a-meal-by-cunning-fly-larvae/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/5718?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Bartering Macaques https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132748-monkey-mafia-steal-your-stuff-then-sell-it-back-for-a-cracker/ https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10329-017-0611-1 https://jbleca.webs.com/robbingbartering.htm ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kleptoparasitic_Spider_-_Flickr_-_treegrow_(2).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dicrurus_adsimilis-01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuckoo_bee_(Nomada_sp).jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/118037005@N06/23881829480/ https://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/MPassage/Gods%20Pocket%20August%202015/Molluscs%20and%20Others%20from%20BC/20.%20Checkered%20hairy%20snail%20DSC_2416_zps76je9oga.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/118037005@N06/23881829480/ https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/18948294 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B4_(Macaca_fascicularis)_2.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fork-tailed_Drongo,_Dicrurus_adsimilis,_at_Mapungubwe_National_Park,_Limpopo,_South_Africa_(18839328671).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meerkat_in_Namibia.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleeping_Melecta_01_(MK).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fork-tailed_Drongo,_Dicrurus_adsimilis,_at_Mapungubwe_National_Park,_Limpopo,_South_Africa_(18214043114).jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/treegrow/7868013190 https://www.flickr.com/photos/chidorian/3670256482 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fork-tailed_Drongo_(Dicrurus_adsimilis)_2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meerkat_(Suricata_suricatta)_Tswalu.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/dkeats/15585613955/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/31655330124 https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumarieslabber/36785164832 https://www.flickr.com/photos/vipinbaliga/14059008450 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pasites_maculatus,_f,_pakistan,_face_2014-11-02-01.46.02_ZS_PMax_(15786919381).jpg https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/8711493 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/29067 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiralis_w-Victim_(12558642363).jpg https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153900 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymYDfHXq4S0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhqKux-liGk
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