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  2. Social grooming - Wikipedia

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    Two adult red wolves groom a juvenile. A male cat grooms a female kitten. Social grooming is a behavior in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's bodies or appearances. A related term, allogrooming, indicates social grooming between members of the same species.

  3. Primate sociality - Wikipedia

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    Primate sociality. Group of bonobos relaxing and grooming. Primate sociality is an area of primatology that aims to study the interactions between three main elements of a primate social network: the social organisation, the social structure and the mating system. The intersection of these three structures describe the socially complex ...

  4. Toothcomb - Wikipedia

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    A toothcomb (also called a tooth comb or dental comb) is a dental structure found in some mammals, comprising a group of front teeth arranged in a manner that facilitates grooming, similar to a hair comb. The toothcomb occurs in lemuriform primates (which include lemurs and lorisoids), treeshrews, colugos, hyraxes, and some African antelopes.

  5. Lemur - Wikipedia

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    They groom in greeting, when waking up, when settling in for sleep, between mother and infant, in juvenile relations, and for sexual advances. [106] Unlike anthropoid primates, who part the fur with the hands and pick out particles with the fingers or mouth, lemurs groom with their tongue and scraping with their toothcomb.

  6. Licking - Wikipedia

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    Macaques and other primates lick leaves for water in addition to dipping their arms into tree crevices and licking the water off. [23] Chimpanzees use licking in a variety of ways: licking objects, such as dead trees, that others in their community have licked, [24] licking each other's body parts for grooming and sex [24] and licking rocks for ...

  7. What is 'grooming'? Why misusing the term could help sexual ...

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    Lawmakers use the term grooming while talking about anti-LGBTQ+ laws like the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Here's what grooming really means, according to experts.

  8. Pant-hoot - Wikipedia

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    Chimpanzee grooming, a reciprocal behaviour commonly associated with the formation of social bonds between individuals. [4]Pant-hoot chorusing in chimpanzees is a facilitative method of social bonding between males in a population and can be indicative of the level of affiliation between members in a party. [4]

  9. Male grooming is booming. Here’s why - AOL

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    Amid shifting notions of masculinity, the men’s grooming market is expected to be worth $115 billion by 2028. Amid shifting notions of masculinity, the men’s grooming market is expected to be ...