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consummatory behavior
noun
, Ethology.
- a behavior pattern that occurs in response to a stimulus and that achieves the satisfaction of a specific drive, as the eating of captured prey by a hungry predator ( appetitive behavior ).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of consummatory behavior1
First recorded in 1905–10
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