Post-Copulatory Groom
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Overview and Meaning
Post-copulatory grooming is a maintenance behavior motivated by the sexual behaviors that occur prior to the act. Post-copulatory grooming occurs at the end of the sexual behaviors sequence.
Description
After a male has completed copulation through ejaculation, he will cease to mount his mate. He will then perform a post-copulatory groom, the cleaning of his penis.
Post-copulatory grooming can be distinguished from other grooming behaviors by the proceeding sexual behaviors and the focus only on the genital area.
Classification
Contexts
Reproduction
Variants
None
Stanford Department of Comparative Medicine presents
A Comprehensive Ethogram of the Laboratory Mouse
