An ethologist is studying social play behaviour in a group of captive meerkats. She decides to record whether or not play-fighting occurs by observing the enclosure for 30 seconds at the start of every 10-minute block over a 6-hour period.
Explain the observational sampling technique used by the ethologist in this study.
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