Kleptoparasitism (en.wikipedia.org)

Finally, my spouse has a word for what our toddler did.

TFA doesn't even mention the human habit of stealing food from mice, for example

https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1605...

Tracking normal food, distributed to the masses from a single source.

This was Claude Levi Strauss's disjunction for culinary techniques.

I love the Wiki holes this page leads me down. Like the Large Blue butterfly¹, where has a caterpillar stage that imitates ant larva. Once ants bring the "larva" to the colony, the caterpillar eats the other larva.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_blue