Feeding Behavior
| Definition: |
Behavioral responses or sequences associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals. |
| Notes: |
human & animal; = manner of eating or feeding (TN 63): differentiate from EATING, the act of eating or feeding; permitted for feeding behavior of insects, as mosquitoes on skin, ticks sucking blood, maggots on flesh, etc., but NIM with feeding organism IM |
| Also Called: |
Feeding Patterns |
| Previously Indexed: |
Behavior (1966-1968),Nutrition (1966-1968) |
Feeding Behavior Categories.
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Cannibalism - Eating other individuals of one's own species. |
Feeding Behavior Definitions and Terms
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