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Even when, at the end of the experiment, both species were separated, the rhesus monkeys still showed three times more reconciliation and grooming behaviors after fights than typical of their kind (de Waal and Johanowicz 1993).
On the day of testing, animals were treated with clomipramine and 60-90 min later microinjected with 1.0 μM AVP in a volume of 100 nl and scored for flank marking and flank gland grooming.
Is this an improvement in personal grooming (a thesis communitarian philosophers might advance) or yet another imposition on busy professionals by the beauty industry (as feminist pundits might argue)?
Flank gland grooming was unaffected by drug treatments (F (2,15) = .009 p > 0.9)
However, uncoordinated movements, somnolence, or poor grooming, as is seen in PTCH animals developing tumors, were never observed.