Social grooming

Social Care, foreign brushing or Allogrooming, partly plumage crawl, called Lausen or mess - Lausen, is a common, though not universally popular comfort or social behavior in birds and mammals, which in contrast to the personal care serving cleaning behavior priority the maintenance of social structures serves. It is felt by the care recipients as pleasant, Single-sided, reciprocally or simultaneously and is directed to the difficult for them to access the body of conspecifics.

Originally, these parts of the body are removed by mutual foreign brushing dirt and parasites. The derived therefrom, ritualized, social body care rooted, as Irenaeus Eibl- Eibesfeldt realized phylogenetically in brood care and is associated with pair bonding, group bonding, and appeasement and other signal features. The cleaning prompt positions and plaster attitudes are often species-specific.

Many species of birds preen the plumage of their social partner, preferably in the head area. This crawl plumage with the beak is of great importance especially in some ducks birds. While horses are mutually " nibble ", the foreign brushing is one-sided in cattle. They lick the partner most likely in the neck, the face and lower neck area, more rarely on the back and even more rarely on the flanks. In the primate grooming is also one-sided and it is of great importance to the group strengthening and training of a communication network. Lower-ranking animals show means combing through the fur to rank higher animals with hands Subdominanz and stuck dander and food crumbs found in the mouth.

Humans also strengthens symbolic Lausen, over-the- hair - brushing and the like binding. In public, however, this is frowned upon in some cultures and in industrial society is in this area instead of professionalization (examples: massage, hairdresser, pedicure and manicure). The social body care is considered an important condition in the development of the language that emerged from the gestures and shouts also acts ribbon stiftend at a distance. For short, not the information exchange serving everyday conversations to that effect according to Desmond Morris coined the term grooming talking.

Used literature

  • Theodor CH Cole, Ingrid Hausser - Siller: Dictionary of Biology / Dictionary of Biology. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press ( Elsevier ), Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1628-0 ( 777 pages).
  • Rolf gate man (ed. ): Dictionary of behavioral biology of animals and humans. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press ( Elsevier ), Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8274-1703-1 (410 pages).
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