7 Species That Steal
We already know that cats will steal anything
that's not tied down. But what about the rest of the animal kingdom?
The tendency to steal food is a beneficial adaptation for a species, and
taking what another critter has is not really rare. For example:
Flowers produce nectar to attract bees for pollination purposes, but
bumblebees take nectar from flowers without pollinating the plants in
exchange.![v](http://uploads.neatorama.com/images/posts/782/61/61782/1368802778-0.jpg)
Bees who’ve evolved with short tongues and thus can’t reach for the sweet nectar have learned to carve holes into the side of a flower in order to reach their reward. This phenomenon, first observed by Charles Darwin, gets a bee nectar without the bee pollinating the plant. More cannily, there’s evidence suggesting that bees aren’t born behaving this way—they learn how to thieve from other bees, a sad sign that bee society is being overrun by hoodlums.Read about seven thieving species here.
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