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displacement activity

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displacement activity

–noun Animal Behavior.
a behavior performed out of its usual context and apparently irrelevant to the prevailing situation, as eating when an unknown individual approaches, tending to occur when appropiate behaviors, as attacking or fleeing, are in conflict or obstructed.

Origin:
1945–50
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