surplus killing

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Etymology

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Coined by Dutch biologist Hans Kruuk.

Noun

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surplus killing (countable and uncountable, plural surplus killings)

  1. The behaviour of a predator that kills more prey than it can immediately eat and then caches or abandons the remainder.
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