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consummatory behavior

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noun

Ethology.

  1. 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 ).

Etymology

Origin of consummatory behavior

First recorded in 1905–10

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