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A process that leads to the cessation of an activity, applied most commonly to feeding behaviour. Satiation may be associated with physiological changes and it occurs before the point at which appetite is satisfied completely and continuation of the activity becomes physically impossible.
From: satiation in A Dictionary of Zoology »
Subjects: Zoology and Animal Sciences.
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