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Personal grooming

Index Personal grooming

Personal grooming (also called preening) is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body. [1]

41 relations: Animal, Anting (bird activity), Bird, Black swan, Blue duck, Cat, Chacma baboon, Comfort behaviour in animals, Conservation biology, Down feather, Dust bathing, Ethology, Feather, Felidae, Flesh fly, Foreign body, Hairball, House sparrow, Human bonding, Hygiene, Insect, Mallard, Mineral oil, Oil spill, Pair bond, Parasitism, Penguin, Penguin sweater, Peregrine falcon, Skin, Social grooming, Social structure, Sociality, Soil, Species-typical behavior, State University of New York, Tortoiseshell cat, University of California, Berkeley, University of New Hampshire, Uropygial gland, Wedge-capped capuchin.

Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Anting (bird activity)

Anting is a self-anointing behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Black swan

The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia.

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Blue duck

The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae endemic to New Zealand.

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Cat

The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal.

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Chacma baboon

The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family.

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Comfort behaviour in animals

Comfort behaviours in animals are activities that help maintain the pelage, feathers, integuement or musculoskeletal system and increase the physical comfort of the animal.

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Conservation biology

Conservation biology is the management of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.

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Down feather

The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers.

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Dust bathing

Dust bathing (also called sand bathing) is an animal behavior characterized by rolling or moving around in dust, dry earth or sand, with the likely purpose of removing parasites from fur, feathers or skin.

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Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.

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Felidae

The biological family Felidae is a lineage of carnivorans colloquially referred to as cats.

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Flesh fly

Flies in the family Sarcophagidae (from the Greek σάρκο sarco-.

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Foreign body

In the field of medicine, a foreign body, sometimes known as FB (Latin: corpus alienum), is any object originating outside the body of an organism.

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Hairball

A hairball is a small collection of hair or fur formed in the stomach of animals, and uncommonly in humans, that is occasionally vomited up when it becomes too big.

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House sparrow

The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world.

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Human bonding

Human bonding is the process of development of a close, interpersonal relationship between two or more people.

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Hygiene

Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Mallard

The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa.

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Mineral oil

Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Pair bond

In biology, a pair bond is the strong affinity that develops in some species between a pair consisting of a male and female, or in some cases as a same-sex pairing, potentially leading to producing offspring and/or a lifelong bond.

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Parasitism

In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Penguin

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.

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Penguin sweater

Penguin sweaters, also known as penguin jumpers, are sweaters knitted for penguins that have been caught in oil slicks.

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Peregrine falcon

The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.

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Skin

Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates.

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Social grooming

Social grooming is a behaviour in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's body or appearance.

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Social structure

In the social sciences, social structure is the patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of the individuals.

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Sociality

Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (Gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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Species-typical behavior

The ethological concept of species-typical behavior is based on the premise that certain behavioral similarities are shared by almost all members of a species.

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State University of New York

The State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States.

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Tortoiseshell cat

Tortoiseshell is a cat coat coloring named for its similarity to tortoiseshell material.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public research university in the University System of New Hampshire, in the United States.

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Uropygial gland

The uropygial gland, informally known as the preen gland or the oil gland, is a bilobate sebaceous gland possessed by the majority of birds.

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Wedge-capped capuchin

The wedge-capped capuchin or weeper capuchin (Cebus olivaceus) is a capuchin monkey from South America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_grooming

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