allogroom

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allogroom (third-person singular simple present allogrooms, present participle allogrooming, simple past and past participle allogroomed)

  1. To perform allogrooming.
    • 2008, Melissa A. Hillegass et al., “The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology, volume 19, number 5, →DOI, pages 1006–1011:
      We collected behavioral data using all-occurrences methods to record autogrooming and allogrooming, including the occurrence and duration(s) of the behavior and the identity of any squirrel being allogroomed.