What are the two adaptive consequences of sensory-specific satiety?

What will be an ideal response?


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(2) encourages animals that have access to a variety of foods to eat a lot; an animal that has eaten its fill of one food will often begin eating again if it encounters a different one; this encourages animals to take full advantage of times of abundance, which are all too rare in nature

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