contrafreeloading

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A behaviour, where, when given a choice, an individual animal will choose a food source which requires effort to obtain instead of that which requires little to no effort. uncountable
    — There is also a free treat option in the puzzle box, a way for the researchers here to measure something called “contrafreeloading.” This term describes a behavior animals demonstrate when they choose to work for a reward rather than just freeloading from readily available food.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of contrafreeload form-of,gerund,participle,present

词源

词源 1
From contra- + freeloading.
词源 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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