headbobbing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]headbobbing (uncountable)
- A stereotypic animal behaviour in which the head bobs up and down.
- 1983, Robert Milton Silverstein, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Chemical signals in vertebrates, volume 3:
- A distinctive feature of the guinea pig's response to conspecific odors (particularly of the male's response to female urine odors) is a behavior we have called headbobbing.
- 2006, Monica Lisa Berlanga, Cholinergic Interneurons and Synaptic Reorganization within the Nucleus Accumbens Shell and Core:
- Cocaine induces a wide range of behaviors in rats, such as hyperlocomotion, excessive exploratory behavior, focused sniffing, headbobbing, as well as other repetitive purposeless behaviors.