In a 2013 study, Agnessa Gidna, José Yáreda, and Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo studied the feeding behaviors of wild lions in Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park with those of captive lions in Spain’s Cabárceno Reserve. The researchers noted that previous studies focused on other carnivores have shown that providing animals with the food at regular intervals, as is common in captive settings, may inadvertently facilitate the development of novel stereotypic (i.e., purposefully repetitive) behaviors by reducing the need for a high degree of cognitive engagement with the environment; the researchers were therefore not altogether surprised to find that ______.

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