What is the biggest thief in the animal kingdom?

Robbery is a survival strategy, and some species have built an entire living out of it. Benjamin Franklin had opinions about one of them.

1. 1
   Raccoon

   Opens bins, latches and coolers with hands dexterous enough to defeat most locks.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Magnificent Frigatebird

   Harasses other seabirds in mid-air until they drop or regurgitate their meal.
   868pts
3. 3
   Common Cuckoo

   Steals the nest itself, leaving its egg for another species to raise.
   750pts
4. 4
   Eastern Gray Squirrel

   Robs rival caches and stages fake burials when it knows it is being watched.
   566pts
5. 5
   Bald Eagle

   Franklin called it a bird of bad moral character for robbing ospreys of their catch.
   500pts
6. 6
   Satin Bowerbird

   Steals blue objects, including from the bowers of rival males.
   423pts
7. 7
   Honey Badger

   Raids beehives and follows other predators to appropriate their kills.
   423pts
8. 8
   Black-backed Jackal

   Trails larger carnivores and takes what it can from a kill it did not make.
   423pts
9. 9
   American Crow

   Watches where other animals cache food, then digs it up later.
   333pts
10. 10
    European Herring Gull

    Takes food directly out of human hands on every coast it occupies.
    333pts
11. 11
    Rhesus Macaque

    Snatches phones and glasses at temples, and in Bali trades them back for fruit.
    333pts
12. 12
    Spotted Hyena

    Reverses the stereotype: often the hunter whose kill a lion takes.
    227pts
13. 13
    Octopus

    Raids crab pots, aquarium tanks and neighbouring dens for shells and food.
    227pts
14. 14
    Adelie Penguin

    Takes pebbles from a neighbour's nest while the neighbour is away.
    227pts
15. 15
    Great Skua

    Chases gannets until they give up the fish, and eats their chicks in the off season.
    100pts