当出现短暂意识丧失等无反应的情况时，人们常常采取行动对其进行救助。这样“救助样”亲社交行为也广泛存在于啮齿类动物中，它们通过为对方理毛（allogrooming，一种亲密的社交接触形式）安慰同伴，提供愉快的体验，缓解接受者压力或疼痛。 “社交大脑 ...

It’s not unusual to see horses turned out together standing side-by-side, using their teeth on each other’s withers. Called allogrooming, this behavior is one of the most common grooming behaviors in ...

The study suggests that sex and social status influence social grooming (where one animal licks another, also known as allogrooming) among free-ranging feral cattle in Hong Kong. HONG KONG (28 Feb ...

Honeybees that specialise in grooming their nestmates (allogroomers) to ward off pests play a central role in the colony, finds a new UCL and University of Florence study published in Scientific ...

A wildlife camera captures deer practicing allogrooming — grooming one another to get places that they can’t reach on their own. During allogrooming, deer may eat ticks that contain CWD-infested blood ...

Cows lick each other around the head and neck to show affection and help forge strong friendships, a new study reveals. Chilean and US scientists spent 30 days observing a small herd of dairy cows ...

Sport is one of the great divides on Twitter. Fans descend into atavistic tribalism or pontificate about strategy and tactics while non-fans head for the digital hills – anything to shut out the noise ...