Social grooming
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Social grooming is a behavior in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's bodies or appearances. A related term, allogrooming, indicates social grooming between members
An adult olive baboon grooms a juvenile.
North American beaver family, with the center pair grooming one another
Indian short-nosed fruit bats in a tight-knit cluster
Mutual grooming in ponies
Comfort behaviour in animals
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Comfort behaviors in animals are actions that contribute to the maintenance of their pelage, feathers, integument, or musculoskeletal system, enhancing overall physical well-being and comfort.
Social grooming
…of an animal's hygiene. Evidence to support this statement involves the fact that all grooming concentrates on body parts that are inaccessible by autogrooming, and that the amount of time spent allogrooming regions did not vary significantly even if the body part had a more important social or communicatory…
Dust bathing mountain zebra in Namibia
Mother monkey hugs her baby creating contact comfort.
Grooming behaviour of a king cheetah
Squirrel scratching its armpit with its hindlimb claws – a process of autogrooming