
(from the article `animal behaviour`) ...enough to initiate a particular drive, an animal commonly behaves as if it were searching for the correct environmental stimulus necessary to ...
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Animal searching behaviour. The variable introductory phase of an instinctive behaviour pattern or sequence, e.g., looking for food, or sequential courtship patterns prior to mating. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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