WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
consum′matory behav′ior, [Ethology.]
- Animal Behaviora 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 (distinguished from appetitive behavior).
- 1905–10
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