WordNet
- make off with belongings of others (同)cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
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- こそどろ
- こそとろをする,ちょろまかす / 〈少額・少量〉‘を'盗む,くすねる
English Journal
- A search game model of the scatter hoarder's problem.
- Alpern S1, Fokkink R, Lidbetter T, Clayton NS.
- Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society.J R Soc Interface.2012 May 7;9(70):869-79. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0581. Epub 2011 Oct 19.
- Scatter hoarders are animals (e.g. squirrels) who cache food (nuts) over a number of sites for later collection. A certain minimum amount of food must be recovered, possibly after pilfering by another animal, in order to survive the winter. An optimal caching strategy is one that maximizes the survi
- PMID 22012971
- Mountain chickadees discriminate between potential cache pilferers and non-pilferers.
- Pravosudov VV1.
- Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society.Proc Biol Sci.2008 Jan 7;275(1630):55-61.
- Evolution of complex cognition in animals has been linked to complex social behaviour. One of the costs of sociality is increased competition for food which may be reduced by food caching, but cache theft may undermine the benefits of caching. In birds, sophisticated food-caching-related cognition h
- PMID 17939981
- Ravens judge competitors through experience with play caching.
- Bugnyar T1, Schwab C, Schloegl C, Kotrschal K, Heinrich B.
- Current biology : CB.Curr Biol.2007 Oct 23;17(20):1804-8.
- Complex social behavior builds on the mutual judgment of individuals as cooperation partners and competitors [1]. Play can be used for assessing the others' dispositions in humans and nonhuman mammals [2], whereas little is known about birds. Recently, food-caching corvids have been found to rival p
- PMID 17949980
Japanese Journal
- 大野 徹
- 大阪外国語大学論集 33, 103-130, 2006-03-28
- … If a pilferer and a pickpocket committed the crime, his thumb and index finger were severed. …
- NAID 110006177780
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- ... pilferer pronunciation, pilferer translation, English dictionary definition of pilferer. v. pil·fered , pil·fer·ing , pil·fers v. tr. To steal . See Synonyms at steal. v. intr. To steal or filch. pil′fer·age n. pil′fer·er n. Noun 1. Pilferer - definition ...
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