Are there mammals whose dominant survival mode could be called "parasitism" (not to be conflated with scavenging)
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To all replying politicians etc as mammalian parasites: Insults aside, every human example I can think of is more scavenger than parasite
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human example would be psychics/mediums purporting to grant access to the dead?
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not for me. Cynical psychic aims to maintain relationship with their client rather than destroy or drive them away as a predator would
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that's one consideration, but also consider level of awareness of host of parasite's presence, and unstable evolution of reln
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yeh fair I suppose. So true parasites need to exist in 'awareness' gaps generally?
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