displacement activity

All the comments on here come into one category: displacement activity.

If displacement activities really are irrelevant, why do animals perform them?

When the stakes are this high, displacement activity is always attractive.

Some of her best ideas had come out of work as displacement activity.

Dancing may also be a displacement activity when the nest or young are threatened.

Indeed, the function of displacement activities themselves is uncertain.

The phenomenon is a classical example of displacement activity.

Ridiculous displacement activity from a completely useless opposition who has lost the plot.

Recalling the pleasure of that night was, I think, a sort of displacement activity for him.

In a situation when two instincts contradict each other, an animal may resort to a displacement activity.

Carbon trading and building windmills are displacement activities that fail to address the real issues.

When it came to displacement activity, like most writers, Kit had turned it into a fine art.

The reason why displacement activities and autonomic activities should evolve into signals is less clear.

This type of response is related to the ethological phenomenon of displacement activity.

These seem to be displacement activities.

Still, as displacement activity pantomimes go, this is a time-honoured corker.

As a displacement activity, she picked up the microphone, switched on the loudspeakers of the passenger cabins.

He moved his tentacle-like fingers on his chest, which gesture, I think, is a displacement activity.

Most Christmas shopping is just a 'displacement activity' to take their minds off the fact that they can't.

It was displacement activity, that's what it was.

Displacement activities often involve actions which bring comfort to the animal such as scratching, preening, drinking or feeding.

Cats international about displacement activities with cats.

He was famous for his work on displacement activities (Dutch: overspronggedraging) and the hierarchy of instincts.

Displacement activities may also occur when animals are prevented from performing a single behaviour for which they are highly motivated.

It was a monologue, and it was little more than displacement activity, while his mind tried to deal with the prospect of life without Tessa.