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2. Personal grooming - Wikipedia

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   This activity is known as personal grooming, a form of hygiene. Extracting foreign objects such as insects, leaves, dirt, twigs and parasites [1] is a form of grooming. Among animals, birds spend considerable time preening their feathers.

3. Social grooming - Wikipedia

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   Grooming is a major social activity and a means by which animals who live in close proximity may bond, reinforce social structures and family links, and build companionship. Social grooming is also used as a means of conflict resolution, maternal behavior, and reconciliation in some species.

4. Preening - Wikipedia

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   When preening, a bird (such as this red lory) draws individual feathers through its beak, realigning and re-interlocking the barbules.. Preening is a maintenance behaviour found in birds that involves the use of the beak to position feathers, interlock feather barbules that have become separated, clean plumage, and keep ectoparasites in check.

5. Male accessory gland - Wikipedia

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   The male accessory glands are the ampullary gland, seminal vesicle, prostate, bulbourethral gland, and urethral gland. [5]The products of these glands serve to nourish and activate the spermatozoa, to clear the urethral tract prior to ejaculation, serve as the vehicle of transport of the spermatozoa in the female tract, and to plug the female tract after placement of spermatozoa to help ensure ...

6. Skunk - Wikipedia

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   In the US, skunks can legally be kept as pets in 17 states. [41] When a skunk is kept as a pet, its scent glands are often surgically removed. [41] A pet albino skunk on a walk. In the UK, skunks can be kept as pets, [42] but the Animal Welfare Act 2006 made it illegal to remove their scent glands. [43]

7. Gland - Wikipedia

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   The term Apocrine gland is often used to refer to the apocrine sweat glands, however it is thought that apocrine sweat glands may not be true apocrine glands as they may not use the apocrine method of secretion. (e.g. mammary gland, sweat gland of arm pit, pubic region, skin around anus, lips and nipples)

8. Violet gland - Wikipedia

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   A Rhodesian Ridgeback (sex unknown) with "stud tail": the violet gland lost hair and appears as a dark dimple. The violet gland or supracaudal gland is a gland located on the upper surface of the tail of certain mammals, including European badgers and canids such as foxes, wolves, [1] and the domestic dog, [2] as well as the domestic cat. [3]

9. List of glands of the human body - Wikipedia

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   Bauhin's glands, anterior lingual glands tongue, near tip nonserous or mixed 3 Brunner's glands, duodenum: mucous: compound tubular 4 Bronchopulmonary glands: lungs: mucous 5 Bulbourethral glands, Cowper's glands, Mery's glands penis, base pre-ejaculate: tubulo-alveolar 6 Ceruminous gland: ear: cerumen: 7 Ciaccio's glands, accessory lacrimal ...