allogrooming
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allogrooming (uncountable)
- (zoology) The grooming of an animal by another member of the same species. [from 20th c.]
- 2015 July 31, “A Social Network Approach Reveals Associations between Mouse Social Dominance and Brain Gene Expression”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- We also utilize SNA to characterize the agonistic (fighting and chasing) as well as other social (sniffing and allogrooming) behavioral interactions of mice.