preening

     

Personal grooming (also calle titivating) is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body. In animals, it is a species-typical behavior that is controlled by neural circuits in the brain.

Trivia about preening

  • From the Latin for "anoint before", it's the process by which a bird cleans its feathers with its beak
  • This process usually includes taking oil from a gland at the base of the tail & applying it to the feathers
  • A gland near birdie's tail is called the oil gland or this, the activity the oil is used for

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