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Personal grooming
Cleaning and maintaining parts of the body / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For preening in birds, see preening (bird).
Grooming (also called preening) is the art and practice of cleaning and maintaining parts of the body. It is a species-typical behavior.
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