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Originally Posted by hawaiian mage
But the point remains that what you are watching is not animal sex, like you've come to expect from watching other animals, but animal masticating, like you've always assumed at first glance until the zoo keeper said otherwise.
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mas·ti·cate
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -cat·ed; -cat·ing
transitive senses
1 : to grind, crush, and chew (food) with or as if with the teeth in preparation for swallowing
2 : to soften or reduce to pulp by crushing or kneading masticate intransitive senses
: to make the motions involved in masticating food —mas·ti·ca·tion