Specialists in organisational behaviour have known for a while that people tend to interact much more with those who sit nearby, but it has never been clear whether that was just social grooming.

组织行为学家目前已经知道，人们往往和那些坐在自己附近的人互动得更多，但他们从来不清楚这是否只是一种社交需要。

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If you have multiple cats, you may have seen them grooming each other, a social practice cats use to establish a common scent among the family group.

如果你养了好几只猫，你可能看见过它们互相梳理毛发，猫咪们通过这样的“社会实践”获得家族专属气味。

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The result was that the females with more social contacts, and who therefore received more grooming, had fewer lice, but only during the winter and summer.

结果发现，社交更多，因此得到更多毛发梳理的母猴身上虱子就越少，不过仅在冬夏两季。

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The campaign has been launched by Preston's Deter Partnership Team - a group of specialists from the police, social workers and charities - set up to deal with grooming and child sexual exploitation offences.

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After the damning review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board (RSCB), the British Association of Social Workers warned that social workers and police officers must realise that victims of grooming gangs were not consenting to sex, although the way they were groomed may give the impression it was consensual.

BBC: Rochdale grooming lessons 'not learnt'