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From the long-term point of view the flow of energy and matter between animals and their environment is behaviourally controlled either as inflow or outflow. It is argued here that such adaptation of behaviour to physiology is obtained by the tendency to maximize sensory pleasure.
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Cabanac, M. (1987). The Place of Behaviour in Physiology. In: Wiepkema, P.R., Van Adrichem, P.W.M. (eds) Biology of Stress in Farm Animals: An Integrative Approach. Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3339-2_12
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