English Explanatory Dictionary

surplus killing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

surplus killing surplus killings

Etymology

Coined by Dutch biologist Hans Kruuk.

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