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Action | Definition |
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Allogrooming | the common primate practice of carefully picking through the hair of someone, looking for insects, twigs, and other debris. Grooming others is a common way by which primates communicate affection and reduce group tension. See autogrooming. |
Autogrooming | grooming oneself in contrast to allogrooming |
Displaying | stylized behavior: a pattern of animal behavior used to produce a response in other animals, especially of the same species, e.g. when courting or defending territory |
Sexual: Courtship | Specialized behavior in animals that leads to or initiates mating. |
Submission | yielding, or readiness to yield: a willingness to yield or surrender to somebody, or the act of doing so |
Weaning | weaning, ablactation -- (the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal) |
Submission: Displaced | displace -- (take the place of) |
Submission: Grimaced | A grimace (also called a bared teeth expression), often coupled with a crouching posture, indicating submission and probably fear. |
Submission: Lip Smack | A lip-smack used to indicate appeasement. |
Submission: Present (for sex) | There, willingly or not |