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investigatory behavior
investigatory behavior Investigatory behavior is exploratory responding toward a stimulus used to assess how an animal evaluates it, especially in social tests.
Investigatory behavior is exploratory responding toward a stimulus used to assess how an animal evaluates it, especially in social tests. In the supplied source, it refers mainly to a mouse’s distance-based investigation of social stimuli, shaped in sequence by checking novelty through smell and then by tactile social contact.