Method

Personal grooming

Overview

Grooming (also called preening) is the practice of cleaning and maintaining parts of the body. It is a species-typical behavior.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Animal
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• Social structure

Place in the tradition

Part of Evolution of morality.

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