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Self-anointing in animals : ウィキペディア英語版
Self-anointing in animals

Self-anointing in animals, sometimes called anointing or anting, is a behaviour whereby a non-human animal smears odoriferous substances over themselves. These substances are often the secretions, parts, or entire bodies of other animals or plants. The animal may chew these substances and then spread the resulting saliva mixture over their body, or they may apply the source of the odour directly with an appendage, tool or by rubbing their body on the source.

The functions of self-anointing differ between species, but may act as self-medication, repel parasites, provide camouflage, aid in communication, or make the animal poisonous.
==Primates==
Several primate species self-anoint with various items such as millipedes, leaves and fruit. They sometimes drool while doing this. Both capuchin and squirrel monkeys perform urine washing, when they deposit a small quantity of urine onto the palm of a hand and then rub it on the sole of the opposite foot. It is thought to have multiple functions including hygiene, thermoregulation and response to irritation from biting ectoparasites (such as ticks and botfly).〔 Some strepsirrhines and New World monkeys also self-anoint the body with urine to communicate.

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